Chap
Schick Toikka · Florian Schick, Lauri Toikka
A modern contrast sans, originally drawn for the Finnish Culture Institute in New York, in six weights with italics and figures for text, titling and tables.
About
Chap is a modulated grotesk that pays tribute to the visibly contrasted sans serifs popular in the 1920s to 1950s, when they were widely used in advertising, architectural lettering and logotypes. It avoids direct revival, with thicks and thins that generally reference the broad-nib pen but break convention with unusual twists of stroke and stretches where calligraphy yields to geometry. Aimed at multipurpose work rather than display fashion, Chap reads cleanly in passages of text at a range of sizes, supported by six weights with italics, figure sets for text, titling and tables, and an Extended Latin character set.
Classification
Schick Toikka position Chap as a tribute to the contrasted sans tradition of the 1920s to 1950s, originally drawn for the Finnish Culture Institute in New York; thicks and thins generally reference the broad-nib pen but skirt convention with unusual twists of stroke and moments where calligraphy yields to geometry.