Akagi was created by Neil Summerour and published by Positype. Akagi includes 20 designs and household package alternatives. p > Akagi began as a draft while on a really long airplane flight to Tokyo in 2007. I wished to develop a sans that was a complete departure from my effective Aaux Pro (now Aaux Next) sans serif family.

Whereas Aaux and its siblings are rather unforgiving and stark in their presentation, I wanted this new sans serif to 'smile' at you when it's on the page. When the plane landed and I understood I did not sleep through the 15 hour trip, my brain turned off, the laptop closed and I hopped in the automobile to the hotel-forgetting the 'new sans' folder on my desktop.

Fast forward a couple of months and I discovered myself seeing a lot of crisp, rigid, robot-like sans serif typefaces all over ... I enjoy these new crop of faces but wished to see something 'friendlier' and remembered my earlier sketch work. The groundwork was there yelling at me to finish and Akagi developed from the ashes.

To be genuinely pleased with it personally, a good deal of time was spent trying to produce a harmony in between line and curve in an attempt to show that you can be crisp, clean and readable and still keep some personality. The Light and Fat weights (routine and italic) are my favorites and I want to see them as the workhorses of the typeface.

Font Family:
· Akagi Thin
· Akagi Thin Italic
· Akagi Light
· Akagi Light Italic
· Akagi Book
· Akagi Book Italic
· Akagi Medium
· Akagi Medium Italic
· Akagi SemiBold
· Akagi SemiBold Italic
· Akagi Bold
· Akagi Bold Italic
· Akagi ExtraBold
· Akagi ExtraBold Italic
· Akagi Black
· Akagi Black Italic
· Akagi Ultra
· Akagi Ultra Italic
· Akagi Fat
· Akagi Fat Italic

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