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Carnero Font

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CarneroDesigner: Steve Matteson
Publisher: Monotype
Carnero was designed by Steve Matteson and published by Monotype. Carnero contains 12 styles and household package options. p > Carnero is a feisty hybrid of accurate geometry and calligraphic style; a design that walks that fine line in between being practical and a standout. In a progressively monotone typographic landscape-- Carnero has a special pulse that moves the reader together with a new energy. Carnero offers life to basic utility with kinetic letter shapes, open apertures, and generous counters.

Drawn by Steve Matteson for the Monotype Studio, Carnero's flexibility is its strength. From digital ads and applications to packaging and branding, Carnero is comfortable and contemporary. The lightest and boldest weights produce inviting headlines, while the middle weights read well for body copy. Utilized together, they develop a vibrant brand name and a clear hierarchy.

Matteson instilled Carnero with a modernist exterior resting on a 10th century calligraphic foundation. Wonderful flourishes on the capital R and K, and lowercase a, k and l, provide the style a distinctive demeanor; while the alternate italic swash caps are a saucy nod to the scribes. The result is a style that is warm, friendly-- and a bit easy going. Matteson explains Carnero as, "going beyond the fixed posture of the geometric sans category."

The Carnero household is a compact collection of six distinct weights, ranging from an engaging light to an authoritative black, each with an italic counterpart. Its extended Latin character set guarantees carefree localization for eastern/western European languages. This is a style that will show its value sometimes over.

Matteson has actually drawn over 80 unique typeface households for major corporations, branding companies and retail sales. His enthusiasms for the outdoors and performing music balances an intense concentrate on work-- and subtly discovers its way into typefaces like Carnero. Matteson has actually designed customized typefaces for 3 generations of the Microsoft Xbox ® game console, the initial core font styles for the Android ® mobile-phone platform, in addition to branding typefaces for Toyota ®, Rocket Home loan ®, and Google ®. He likewise drew the Kootenay household, Monotype's proprietary branding typeface. Matteson's retail styles vary from the classy and utilitarian Open Serif (a buddy to Google's Open Sans), to a growing series of Frederic Goudy revivals.

Font Family:
· Carnero Light
· Carnero Light Italic
· Carnero Book
· Carnero Book Italic
· Carnero Regular
· Carnero Italic
· Carnero Semibold
· Carnero Semibold Italic
· Carnero Bold
· Carnero Bold Italic
· Carnero Black
· Carnero Black Italic

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