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A Day Without Sun

Zetafonts · Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Debora Manetti · 2014

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displaycondensed handlettered displaycondenseditalic
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An ultra-condensed, hand-drawn display typeface derived from Panforte, evoking vintage handlettered menus with a deliberately grungy texture.

About

Drawn in loose, expressive strokes by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini from Debora Manetti's Panforte design, it compresses letterforms to an extreme degree while retaining a faux-handmade quality suited to decorative titling and menu work. A Text subfamily offers Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic for smaller settings where the grungy detail softens. OpenType features include small capitals, oldstyle figures, ligatures and a set of special ligature dingbats, with coverage extending across Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts for over 200 languages.

Classification

An ultra-condensed, hand-drawn display typeface with a grungy, handmade texture and vintage handlettering aesthetic, placing it firmly in the display category rather than a conventional script or sans.

Weights

RegularBold

Optical sizes and widths

standardText

Family

A Day Without Sun Text

Languages

LatinGreekCyrillic

Tags

condensedhandletteredvintagedisplaygrungymenudecorativefaux-handmade