What if Bank Gothic tried to dress up as Copperplate Gothic for Halloween?

An earlier (1926) constructed alphabet from Jan Tschichold, based on a somewhat finer grid and a slightly less condensed uppercase and a bolder appearance overall.

With a caps-height of 17, reproducing some diagonals proved quickly to be between nightmarish and impossible, thus the fidelity is a bit less exact than my previous recreation.

For a digitisation that encompass both designs and offers proper alternates, you can look at Peter Wiegel’s Tschichold.

My version of Jan Tschichold’s “Schmale Grotesk - Leicht und schnell konstruierbare Schrift” (narrow grotesque - font that is easy and quick to construct), from 1930.

Turns out it isn’t always “quick and easy” to translate a pen and straightedge approach to constructed letters into Fontstruct’s prefabricated bricks setting.

In expanding the glyph coverage, I tried to remain true to the spirit of the original self imposed limitations, both in terms of grid (e.g. the cramped space for the uppercase diacritics), and of tools (see the solution for  superscripts et similia).

The font covers all of Google Fonts Basic set and, given the c-caron present in the source, all of Czech orthography. I may try to add other Eastern European languages in the future.

There are many different takes on the same source (including for the visual identity of a museum), you can look at Serious, here on Fontstruct, or at Iwan Reschniev, for an extensive expansion in weights and typographic features.

As always, comments and suggestions are welcome :-)

See also Quick and Easy and New.

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Unicode® 16.0.0

Unicofonte is a sans-serif typeface which is designed by marcot_0425, not_cake, & Sed 4 type foundry for the Fake Bézier curves(geometric shapes only).

Latest update (v7.0.0):
 

March 3 at 11 a.m.:

Updated Cyrillic Omega Titlo and OT

Updated L with accent marks (especially L with stroke [small] as it looks like a T)

Fixed u0020 (spacebar)

I've updated tone six (looks like a cyrillic hard sign)

I've updated Cyrillic multi-eyed o (10 eyes) and F with stroke (Ua798) (looks like French franc symbol)

Fixed some bugs

Fixed all Latin extensions d character (a7d5) and medival exclamation and quesion mark（2E53-4）

Fixed Thorn with stroke

i used a diagonal brick to make it

Sun 24 Dec:

Today I added latin/greek/cyrillic unicode 16.0 chars

26 Dec 2023:

Better Kerning

Fixed most of the errors that I found

A little experiment with the "connect" bricks (and an healty dose of stacking). I wasn't referencing any specific example of the style (of which there are many), but I'm sure that, looking for solutions as I went, I ended up with something similar to already existing typefaces (and fontstructions).

Unfortunately, some connecting bricks don't align exactly, so I had to resort to approximate them, when possible, with more stacking, which didn't particularly help the already lacking consistency in construction.

But enough moaning, enjoy!

My take on a thin sans.

It should cover all Western European languages (plus Hawaiian and Hepburn romanisation).

First pass at light kerning done, will be refined with use.

A completely unoriginal typeface, that make up for its complete lack of personality with an equally complete lack of consistency.

Enjoy.