Geometric Sans
ジオメトリック・サンセリフ / 1927– / Style / Type Classification
Reduced letterforms to circle, line and triangle — building the new era's letters from geometry rather than the hand's habits.
Near-circular bowls / Monoline strokes / Geometric skeletons / Machine-age optimism
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- It looks purely geometric but is full of optical correction. Don't set shapes as letters; observe the corrections.
- Further study
- Paul Renner, Futura / Herbert Bayer's universal alphabet / Erbar and Kabel