Abaliss Sans Typeface Specimen by Paul Robb is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
BronzeGraphic· 2023
Abaliss Sans Typeface Specimen
by Paul Robb
Client: S6 Foundry
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
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About Abaliss Sans Typeface Specimen
Abaliss Sans is a contemporary typeface family based on the swiss style with strong stylistic geometric contrasts representing the shifting contemporary aesthetics. Its distinctive stance and wide-open counters allow the right visual consistency for branding and communications projects. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs with stylistic letter and numeral sets and alternative glyphs and discretionary ligatures.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Abaliss Sans Typeface Specimen is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Abaliss Sans Typeface Specimen is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Abaliss Sans Typeface Specimen splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The concept of the typeface was to create a modern twist on a sans font.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
During the design process, we wanted to create something fresh and innovative in how the forms and shapes communicate together.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
The font is represented throughout the world via Monotype and T26 font distribution and hopefully enjoyed by other designers in their projects.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Abaliss Sans is a contemporary typeface family based on the swiss style with strong stylistic geometric contrasts representing the shifting contemporary aesthetics. Its distinctive stance and wide-open counters allow the right visual consistency for branding and communications projects.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The Specimen was printed CMYK with one special fluorescent green.
- Tags
- Font design, Branding, Identity, Type design
- Production Technology
- The typeface was developed in Glyphs
- Design Challenge
- The research challenge was to create forms that were an innovation in the stylistic feeling of the typeface family
- Research
- Researching the form shape and structure of the font, lead us to examine early 20th centry fonts from humanistic to geometric styles, helping to evolve the present forms.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for the typeface family is based on the shifting aesthetics of modernism. The layout of the specimen was influenced by the layout structures and experiments of Emil Ruder., Weingart and Hofman.
- Project Duration
- The Typeface was started in 2022 and finished in 2023
- Operation Flow
- The Specimen was a limited run and sent to existing customers
- Team Members
- Paul Henry Robb
- Image Credits
- Copyright 2023 Paul Henry Robb
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