![]() ![]() It is a famous font for its bold and italic styles. It has many styles and weights that can use with the styles of moderne sans font for different types of design tasks. The skilled combination of structured sans serif with elements of modern typography makes Brandon Grotesque highly individual, and ideal to enhance your layouts.This typeface has been inspired by the 1920s typefaces designs, that’s why the characters of this typeface come with low x-height. Thanks to its unobtrusive, neutral, but nonetheless distinctive character, the Brandon Grotesque can be used in a variety of areas of application while von Döhren thinks that the very Thin and the thick Black are more suitable for display purposes, the other stroke widths also cut a very fine figure in the area of text. In addition, the "a" changes to the closed form and the "g" changes to the monocular form, the "f" is given a crossbar and the common "e" a more rounded form. There is a matching Italic font style for all stroke widths, in which the slanted letters are justified slightly more narrowly. In addition, the rounded off corners lend the font a modern touch, which is borne out by the slightly conical stroke in "n", "p" or "r", for example, among other details.īrandon Grotesque is available in six stroke widths from Thin to Black the forms of the Thin font style are reduced almost to a hairline. With the slightly rounded corners of the Brandon Grotesque von Döhren is not just counteracting the cool and formal character of the structured sans serif, but is giving a warm complexion to the noble character of the font, produced by the low x-height. Nevertheless anyone who prefers the closed "a" can obtain it as an alternative via the format sets of the Open Type font. With the open common "a" and the looptail "g" von Döhren is coming closer to the forms of the Antiqua than those of a structured sans serif. ![]() Thus, for example, the "c" clearly shows that its prototype is the circle, while the arches in "b" and "d" tend more to recall a humanist sans serif with a very slight variation in the stroke width and a Renaissance Antiqua as prototype. However, von Döhren reworked the structured forms with legibility in mind. Hannes von Döhren took the structures sans serif fonts of the 20's and 30's in the 20th century as his inspiration for the Brandon Grotesque. In this font von Döhren skilfully combines the forms of the structured sans serif fonts of the 1920's and 30's with elements of contemporary typography. ![]() With his Brandon Grotesque font, the type designer Hannes von Döhren has shown that he does not just have the knack of designing display fonts such as Snoogle™ or elaborate Antiquas like Opal™. ![]()
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