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Lunema Specimen Typeface Book by Paul Robb

Lunema Specimen Typeface Book by Paul Robb is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.


SilverGraphic· 2021

Lunema Specimen Typeface Book

by Paul Robb

Client: Salt & Pepper

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category

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Verified Award Winner

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The Design

About Lunema Specimen Typeface Book

Lunema is a highly stylized contemporary neo-grotesque sans serif typeface with strong geometric contrasts. A functional san serif family that can stand the test of time, whilst still feeling modern and unique. Each letter shape has been crafted with great attention to detail in order to ensure legibility at large and small sizes due to the distinct deep ink traps. All 10 weights have an extended Latin glyph set with alternatives and ligatures.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Lunema Specimen Typeface Book is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Lunema Specimen Typeface Book is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Lunema Specimen Typeface Book is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Lunema is a highly stylized contemporary neo-grotesque sans serif typeface with strong geometric contrasts. The font to be highly legible in smaller point sizes due to the distinct deep ink traps. All 10 weights have an extended Latin glyph set with alternatives and ligatures.
Dimensions & Packaging
The font is produced in 10 weights and styles
Tags
Type design, font
Production Technology
Typeface realized in Glyphs
Design Challenge
The challenge was to create a stylish modern font with sweeping forms that were and covered problems when used in smaller point sizes but create distinctive stylish forms.
Research
We studied early and late 1900 century san serif fonts, used in high volume printing runs where a problem of legibility was defined by the print process.
Inspiration
The design was inspired by 1900 century san serif typeface used in telephone books. The design uses modern and generous stylish glyph forms allowing the font to be used both in smaller point sizes and at large point sizes to create an original branding typeface.
Project Duration
The project began in July 2020 with the commercial license released by Monotype in December 2020
Operation Flow
The commercial font is used primarily by branding and communications design
Team Members
Paul Robb
Moira Bartoloni
Federica Simone
Image Credits
@ Salt & pepper Studio / Paul Henry Robb

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