Bronze Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design · 2023
Abaliss Sans Typeface Specimen
by Paul Robb
- A' Design Award 2023 Bronze Winner in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: S6 Foundry
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 23,320
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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.
Press Kit
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Image Credits
- Copyright 2023 Paul Henry Robb
Colors of Abaliss Sans Typeface Specimen
Design Interview about Abaliss Sans Typeface Specimen
The concept of the typeface was to create a modern twist on a sans font.
During the design process, we wanted to create something fresh and innovative in how the forms and shapes communicate together.
The font is represented throughout the world via Monotype and T26 font distribution and hopefully enjoyed by other designers in their projects.
Each of the fonts requires around 3 months of design and engineering.
It was a design/sketch that seemed to gain a form, that we felt needed to be brought to market.
The font is widely available with licensing handled by the relative companies.
We started our foundry in 2020 and this font fits perfectly in our retail fonts distribution.
I think everything we see influences our execution of a design
Our foundry designs fonts by designers for designers.
The design concept was to create large open counters with great contrast.
I'm not really sure. But as the font designs progress they seem to naturally have forms that the name changes until that balance of name and form is visually correct.
Sketchbooks, and then engineered in Glyphs
It's form and flow.
Technology is fundamental in the development of each engineered typeface
Probably the biggest problem is dedicating the right time to each stage.
We love to have our design pied reviewed as it stimulates the process to continue our development.
Every part of the process is a learning exercise to create new and more complex systems
Thank you!