Items Text Wide
Schick Toikka · Florian Schick, Lauri Toikka
The wide text cut of Items Text: a roomier transitional serif for body copy, exploring what Times-lineage forms look like when freed from space constraints.
About
Items Text Wide widens the body-copy proportions of the Items Text branch. The foundry describe Items Wide as opening a whole new dimension, exploring what a transitional serif would look like if freed from space constraints; the Text version brings that wider stance into running text, with subdued contrast and open spacing for legibility. Seven weights including Book are matched with italics, and the cut connects to Items Standard and Items Condensed and to the display branch as part of the wider Items system.
Classification
The wide cut of the Items Text branch; subdued stroke contrast and open spacing of the text branch carried into a wider proportion, exploring what a transitional serif looks like when freed from space constraints.