Codec Pro
Zetafonts · Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli · 2019
An eleven-weight geometric sans with built-in stylistic sets that toggle between a cold, constructed look and a warmer, more humanist one.
About
Originally developed in 2017 and relaunched as Codec Pro, this family spans eleven weights from Thin to Fat, each with an italic, plus two variable font files. Stylistic sets distinguish Codec Cold, with terminals parallel or perpendicular to the baseline, from Codec Warm, which uses open diagonal cuts and softer forms, while logo variants add ligatures and horizontally stretched uppercase characters. Script support covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic across 214 languages with 1,446 glyphs per style.
Classification
Codec Pro is a geometric sans-serif with two core moods: Codec Cold, which uses terminals cut parallel or perpendicular to the baseline for a constructed geometric look, and Codec Warm, which uses open diagonal cuts and humanist shapes for a softer feel.