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Hello,
do you know other typefaces like FF Balance where the different weights (light, book, bold, black) have equal width?
(To be not missunderstood: I do not mean monospaced fonts.)
Thank you!
Thomas
27 Mar 2012 — 9:09pm
Else 4 weights
Handsome 4 weights
Morphica 2 weights
Panoptica 7 styles; 3 weights of sans
(The last three are mine.)
27 Mar 2012 — 9:20pm
BTW, the term I use for that is "uniwidth".
hhp
27 Mar 2012 — 11:29pm
Mantika Sans 4 weights
28 Mar 2012 — 12:23am
Silica, by Sumner Stone:
http://stonetypefoundry.com/silicaoverview.html
28 Mar 2012 — 1:52am
Buivenga's Delicious and others: http://typophile.com/node/77895
28 Mar 2012 — 6:01am
Brandon Grotesque
http://www.hvdfonts.com/#6-Brandon%20Grotesque
28 Mar 2012 — 3:22am
Delicato
28 Mar 2012 — 3:36am
Are you sure about Anziano?
28 Mar 2012 — 3:47pm
Oops! No!
4 May 2013 — 8:37am
This is one of the key features of the forthcoming Benedictine Pro family.
@hrant:
I took the liberty to use the term "uniwidth" in the description of the Benedictine Pro family at alterlittera.com, including a link to this post. Please let me know if you think this is not appropriate. Thanks.
4 May 2013 — 9:27am
Not that you need my permission or anything, but: if all the characters in all the three weights of Benedictine Pro (including kerning) take up exactly the same width, then it is indeed what I'd call uniwidth. One thing that's not clear in your text though is how the Italics play into this: I assume they're not uniwidth with the Romans, but are they uniwidth among themselves?
BTW, here's a nice new uniwidth design that really pushes the weight range envelope:
http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/axia/
And here's an old related thread:
http://www.typophile.com/node/61252
hhp
4 May 2013 — 10:04am
More: http://typophile.com/node/100708
4 May 2013 — 11:36am
@hrant:
In order to not hijack this thread, I will be glad to answer your questions in the Benedictine Pro thread.
Thanks.
4 May 2013 — 11:05pm
Sabon was an early famous example of a typeface where normal and italics had the same width by design, so that the typeface would be identical both on Linotype machines (where this was required for technical reasons) and on other systems of typesetting.
5 May 2013 — 5:56am
I’ve been meaning to develop a list of these.
QUESTION: Is there a term for typefaces that employ this “different weight, same width” technique?
5 May 2013 — 6:13am
Asap on Google Fonts
http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Asap
5 May 2013 — 7:10am
Chris, if you mean "different weight, same width" then that's what I use "uniwidth" for. Some people call it "duplexing" (from way back actually) but there's a confusing Two in that term, plus no reference to width.
BTW it doesn't have to be just weight: like in Sabon and Asap it could include Italics. Or even multiple styles, like in my Daam Entity from the 90s:
http://themicrofoundry.com/s_latin.html
hhp