Designers: Francesco
Canovaro,
Cosimo
Lorenzo
Pancini,
Andrea
TartarelliCodec is a geometric sans serif type system, developed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini with Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli. Codec supplies you with two coherent variant fonts constructed on the very same base skeleton: Codec Cold and Codec Warm.
In Codec Cold terminals are constantly cut parallel or perpendicular to the standard, emphasizing geometry and offering the typeface a more constructed look. In Codec Warm, on the contrary, open diagonal cuts and two-storey letterforms offer the typeface a slightly more humanist appearance and a gentler, warmer text sensation.
Both Codec Cold and Codec Warm come with a large range of glyphs for language protection, consisting of Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, and of open type features, including small caps, positional characters and swash forms.
Codec typefaces also include over a hundred alternative ligature and alternate glyphs.
These glyphs, normally readily available as discretionary ligatures, have been made permanently active in the two Codec Logo subfamilies, developed for screen usage and logo design, and therefore offered with a bolder weight variety and tighter metrics. Codec Logo Cold makes the cold geometry alive with funky ligatures, while Codec Logo Warm arbitrarily extends characters: both permit quick, unexpected options in logo style and display screen type treatment.
