Aprex Family ʻano Kiʻi Kiʻi by Paul Robb is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Gula in Hoʻolālā Kiʻi, Kiʻi Paʻi a me Kamaʻilio ʻIke Competition Category.
GulaKiʻi· 2023
Aprex Family ʻano Kiʻi Kiʻi
by Paul Robb
Client: S6 Foundry
A' Design Award Gula Winner in Kiʻi Category
Verified Award Winner
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About Aprex Family ʻano Kiʻi Kiʻi
Hoʻohālikelike pono ʻo Aprex font i nā hiʻohiʻona liʻiliʻi e pili ana me ka sans contemporary me ka flair i loko o ka laulā o nā helu helu a me nā puka ʻoluʻolu a me ka hanu. Ma nā paona a me nā nui a pau, hiki i ka typeface ke heluhelu maikaʻi a me ka ʻokoʻa maikaʻi ma waena o ka maikaʻi a me ka maikaʻi ʻole, e hoʻolilo iā ia i mea maʻalahi. Me ka hui pū ʻana o nā kikoʻī o kēia wā a me nā ʻano kuʻuna, ua huki ʻo Aprex i ka hoʻoikaika ʻana mai nā ʻano kikokikona kanaka waena a me nā grotesques. Loaʻa i kēlā me kēia kaumaha ma mua o 700 glyphs.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Gula
Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Aprex Family ʻano Kiʻi Kiʻi i ka A' Design Award Gula, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā pae mua, kupaianaha a kūʻokoʻa. He mau hana hou loa, ʻike maka a nani hoʻolaʻa nā lanakila Gula e hōʻike ana i ka ʻuhane akamai, ka naʻauao a me ka mākau o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Aprex Family ʻano Kiʻi Kiʻi he mea hoʻokumu i hoʻomaikaʻi nui ʻia, e hoʻokumu ana i nā ʻano hou, he nui, e hāʻawi ana i ka waiwai ʻaʻole i ʻike ʻia ma mua. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Gula he papahana kupaianaha, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi nui a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. Hoʻāla ka hoʻolālā Aprex Family ʻano Kiʻi Kiʻi i nā manaʻo makemake ikaika, hoʻāla i ka ʻiʻini, hoʻoulu i ka hana noʻeau a hoʻopūliki iā mākou.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Aprex font perfectly balances the minimalist qualities associated with contemporary sans with flair within the width of the counters and comfortable, breathable apertures. — Throughout weights and sizes, the typeface has great legibility and good contrast between positive and negative space, making it stunningly versatile. With a seamless combination of contemporary details and classic styles, Aprex draws inspiration from the mid-century humanist and grotesques typefaces.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The font famlity is available in TTF, OTF, and WOFF formats.
- Tags
- Font design, Branding, Identity, Type design, Type Specimen
- Production Technology
- The font was firstly hand drawn and then developed within Glyphs.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part was to create a mono and sans serif font that retailed detail and form.
- Research
- Research and development was based on the International style of the late 20th century, drawing inspiration from the mid-century humanist and grotesques typefaces, and its solid and straightforward structure is characterized by angular connections between curves and stems.
- Inspiration
- Aprex Sans draws inspiration from the mid-century humanist and grotesques typefaces, and its solid and straightforward structure is characterized by angular connections between curves and stems. Aprex Mono is a Monospaced stylized industrial version, with multilingual support. The font is inspired by a basic sans serif glyphs structure, concerning the balance and optimization that bring a clean typeface.
- Project Duration
- The Ffont family was developed in 2022
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Paul Henry Robb, 2022.
- Team Members
- Paul Henry Robb
- Image Credits
- Images and typeface copyright Paul Henry Robb 2022
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