Alternate names for Light/Roman/Bold
For example, House Industries’ Chalet comes in three different styles (1960, 1970 and 1980) and each has different weights, but instead of light, regular, bold they use Paris, London, New York.
I’m sure there are a bunch of other typefaces that forego the typical weight labels.
Examples would be appreciated!
5.Jun.2008 1.25pm
PSY/OPS likes to use A, B, C ... Gauge for its weight names.
6.Jun.2008 5.44am
Smeijers uses Blonde, in addition to Normal, Bold, and Black, for Arnhem.
I have a design that I’ve been toying with that I was considering using Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, and Basso for the weight range. I don’t know if this design will ever see the light of day. (No examples to show, sorry.) Plus, I doubt these designations would pass muster with a typical foundry, not if we wanted wide appeal.
— K.
6.Jun.2008 12.40pm
4n, 5n, 6n, 7n
6.Jun.2008 1.04pm
Museo has 100-900 for the various weights.
6.Jun.2008 3.47pm
Porchez Typofonderie has used Sombre (Ultra Black) and Clair (Light) for Parisine.
6.Jun.2008 4.16pm
Lexicon goes by a Letter/Number system, ie Roman C No.1
Ruse goes by numbers, from 000 to 100.
And we can’t forget good ol’ Univers with the revolutionary numbering system!
—K
7.Jun.2008 7.24am
Adobe’s Multiple Masters use a combination of numbers and letters.
7.Jun.2008 7.29am
Fountain’s Alita comes in Regular, Bold and Postmodern. :-)
[EDIT] ...And their Super is available in Normal, Duper (bold) and Sonic (outline)
7.Jun.2008 10.45am
Wasn’t their a font that went by cup size?
7.Jun.2008 10.48am
Maybe I was just remembering Fast Girls and the reference to underwire.