Krana Fat
Schick Toikka · Florian Schick, Lauri Toikka
A two-style brush-derived display face with condensed (A) and extended (B) cuts, designed to be mixed; first deployed in Bremen's 'Die Zeitschrift der Strasse'.
About
Krana Fat is a display typeface inspired by the lettering of Finnish designer and illustrator Erkki Toukolehto. Rather than imitating his wide flat brush, it abstracts the strokes into a soft contour and lands somewhere between typography and lettering, evoking vernacular signage, hobbyist templates and engineered institutional alphabets. A prototype first ran in the award-winning 'Die Zeitschrift der Strasse' in Bremen, where condensed and wide caps were mixed for staccato headlines. The released family splits this into two fonts, A (condensed) and B (extended), each with a lowercase, designed to be mixed within a line. Two sets of compact alternate accents stack closely above the cap line for dense type or maximum-size letters per page.
Classification
Schick Toikka describe Krana Fat as a peculiar display typeface inspired by the lettering of Finnish graphic designer and illustrator Erkki Toukolehto, sitting between typography and lettering and evoking vernacular signage, hobbyist templates and institutional alphabets constructed by teams of engineers.