Designers: Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli, Mario De LiberoFrancesco Canovaro created Asgard as a way to mix his passion for the raw energy of extra vibrant sans serif typography with the expressivity of high contrast and calligraphy-inspired letterforms. He built the typeface around a strong geometric sans skeleton, to make the letters feel strong and effective while utilizing wood-type vernacular services to fix density through high contrast details. The typeface name was picked as a homage to the mythical homeland of the Norse Gods, evoking a land of fierce warriors, power and strength - however also of divine, fragile beauty.
Thanks to the help of Andrea Tartarelli and Mario de Libero the initial style was extended along with the style area, broadening the variety of weights and widths with a 'workhorse typeface' method, and including also an inclined axis to experiment with italics. The outcome is a super-family of 9 styles of 8 weights for a total of 72 fonts, each featuring an extended set of 968 glyphs covering over 200 languages utilizing Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. The 3 variation axes (width, weight, slant) are likewise all accessible in a variable font style version that is consisted of with the entire family.
This offers the designer a complete variety of alternatives for typesetting, with the Roman and Fit widths providing standard screen and text-sized options, and the Wide width adding more screen and entitling choices. The inclusion of backslant italic styles gives Asgard an additional possibility to include its voice to the typographic combination. To match this, all Asgard typefaces have been provided a full set of Open Type Features including standard and discretionary ligatures, stylistic sets, positional characters and case delicate forms.
Dynamic and meaningful, Asgard is a super-family that handles to look brutal and refined at the same time, estimating the vernacular typographic practices of letterpress print while expressing the contemporary zeitgeist.
- Suggested uses: perfect for contemporary branding and logo design, vibrant editorial design, vibrant product packaging and many other projects.
- 73 styles: 8 weights + 8 italics + 8 backslant italics, 3 various widths + 1 variable font.
- 968 glyphs in each weight.
- Useful OpenType features: Gain access to All Alternates, Contextual Alternates, Case-Sensitive Kinds, Glyph Composition/ Decay, Discretionary Ligatures, Denominators, Fractions, Kerning, Standard Ligatures, Lining Figures, Localized Types, Mark Positioning, Mark to Mark Positioning, Alternate Annotation Forms, Numerators, Oldstyle Figures, Ordinals, Scientific Inferiors, Stylistic Set 1, Stylistic Set 2, Stylistic Set 3, Subscript, Superscript, Slashed Zero
- 219 languages supported ( extended Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets): English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Javanese (Latin), Vietnamese, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Afaan Oromo, Azeri, Tagalog, Sundanese (Latin), Filipino, Moldovan, Romanian, Indonesian, Dutch, Cebuano, Igbo, Malay, Uzbek (Latin), Kurdish (Latin), Swahili, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Haitian Creole, Hiligaynon, Afrikaans, Somali, Zulu, Serbian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Shona, Quechua, Albanian, Catalan, Chichewa, Ilocano, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Neapolitan, Xhosa, Tshiluba, Slovak, Danish, Gikuyu, Finnish, Norwegian, Sicilian, Sotho (Southern), Kirundi, Tswana, Sotho (Northern), Belarusian (Latin), Turkmen (Latin), Bemba, Lombard, Lithuanian, Tsonga, Wolof, Jamaican, Dholuo, Galician, Ganda, Low Saxon, Waray-Waray, Makhuwa, Bikol, Kapampangan (Latin), Aymara, Zarma, Ndebele, Slovenian, Tumbuka, Venetian, Genoese, Piedmontese, Swazi, Zazaki, Latvian, Nahuatl, Silesian, Bashkir (Latin), Sardinian, Estonian, Afar, Cape Verdean Creole, Maasai, Occitan, Tetum, Oshiwambo, Basque, Welsh, Chavacano, Dawan, Montenegrin, Walloon, Asturian, Kaqchikel, Ossetian (Latin), Zapotec, Frisian, Guadeloupean Creole, Q'eqchi', Karakalpak (Latin), Crimean Tatar (Latin), Sango, Luxembourgish, Samoan, Maltese, Tzotzil, Fijian, Friulian, Icelandic, Sranan, Wayuu, Papiamento, Aromanian, Corsican, Breton, Amis, Gagauz (Latin), Māori, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Alsatian, Atayal, Kiribati, Seychellois Creole, Võro, Tahitian, Scottish Gaelic, Chamorro, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Kashubian, Faroese, Rarotongan, Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Karelian (Latin), Romansh, Chickasaw, Arvanitic (Latin), Nagamese Creole, Saramaccan, Ladin, Kaingang, Palauan, Sami (Northern Sami), Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Drehu, Wallisian, Aragonese, Mirandese, Tuvaluan, Xavante, Zuni, Montagnais, Hawaiian, Marquesan, Niuean, Yapese, Vepsian, Bislama, Hopi, Megleno-Romanian, Creek, Aranese, Rotokas, Tokelauan, Mohawk, Onĕipŏt, Warlpiri, Cimbrian, Sami (Lule Sami), Jèrriais, Arrernte, Murrinh-Patha, Kala Lagaw Ya, Cofán, Gwich' in, Seri, Sami (Southern Sami), Istro-Romanian, Wik-Mungkan, Anuta, Cornish, Sami (Inari Sami), Yindjibarndi, Noongar, Hotcąk (Latin), Meriam Mir, Manx, Shawnee, Gooniyandi, Ido, Wiradjuri, Hän, Ngiyambaa, Delaware, Potawatomi, Abenaki, Esperanto, Folkspraak, Interglossa, Interlingua, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Lojban, Novial, Occidental, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Slovio (Latin), Volapük.
Font Family:
· Asgard Thin
· Asgard Thin Italic
· Asgard Thin Backslant
· Asgard Extralight
· Asgard Extralight Italic
· Asgard Extralight Backslant
· Asgard Light
· Asgard Light Italic
· Asgard Light Backslant
· Asgard Regular
· Asgard Regular Italic
· Asgard Regular Backslant
· Asgard Medium
· Asgard Medium Italic
· Asgard Medium Backslant
· Asgard Bold
· Asgard Bold Italic
· Asgard Bold Backslant
· Asgard Extrabold
· Asgard Extrabold Italic
· Asgard Extrabold Backslant
· Asgard Fat
· Asgard Fat Italic
· Asgard Fat Backslant
· Asgard Fit Thin
· Asgard Fit Thin Italic
· Asgard Fit Thin Backslant
· Asgard Fit Extralight
· Asgard Fit Extralight Italic
· Asgard Fit Extralight Backslant
· Asgard Fit Light
· Asgard Fit Light Italic
· Asgard Fit Light Backslant
· Asgard Fit Regular
· Asgard Fit Regular Italic
· Asgard Fit Regular Backslant
· Asgard Fit Medium
· Asgard Fit Medium Italic
· Asgard Fit Medium Backslant
· Asgard Fit Bold
· Asgard Fit Bold Italic
· Asgard Fit Bold Backslant
· Asgard Fit Extrabold
· Asgard Fit Extrabold Italic
· Asgard Fit Extrabold Backslant
· Asgard Fit Fat
· Asgard Fit Fat Italic
· Asgard Fit Fat Backslant
· Asgard Wide Thin
· Asgard Wide Thin Italic
· Asgard Wide Thin Backslant
· Asgard Wide Extralight
· Asgard Wide Extralight Italic
· Asgard Wide Extralight Backslant
· Asgard Wide Light
· Asgard Wide Light Italic
· Asgard Wide Light Backslant
· Asgard Wide Regular
· Asgard Wide Regular Italic
· Asgard Wide Regular Backslant
· Asgard Wide Medium
· Asgard Wide Medium Italic
· Asgard Wide Medium Backslant
· Asgard Wide Bold
· Asgard Wide Bold Italic
· Asgard Wide Bold Backslant
· Asgard Wide Extrabold
· Asgard Wide Extrabold Italic
· Asgard Wide Extrabold Backslant
· Asgard Wide Fat
· Asgard Wide Fat Italic
· Asgard Wide Fat Backslant
· Asgard Variable
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