Designer: Cosimo
Lorenzo
PanciniCrypto-typography - the passion for unknown, odd and unusual character shapes - is an illness typically impacting type designers. Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini has commemorated it in this typeface family, aptly called Hagrid after the half-blood giant with an enthusiasm for cryptozoology described by R. K. Rowling in her Harry Potter books. Extreme optical corrections, calligraphic counter-spaces, inverted contrast, over-the-top overshoots: all the innovations that abound in vernacular and speculative typography have actually been adoringly gathered in this mongrel sans serif household, carefully stabilizing eccentric services and solid grotesque design.
Hagrid is a typeface created for editorial & & display usage, bringing dynamism to the printed and digital page thanks to its severe contrast and special information. It has actually been developed in a series of 6 screen weights varying from the monolinear and more traditional thin to the expressive heavy weight. For better readability in small sizes and online, a buddy text household has been established, with a slightly various selection of weights, broader metrics, and fine changes to keep the vibrant expressivity of the design without sacrificing legibility. This appears in the style of italics: while the display screen italics sport a cursive feel with calligraphic terminals to lowercase letters, the text design is more restrained, with a more classical geometric grotesque slanted look.
Provided the crypto-typographer love for foreign specimens of letters, special care has been put into making Hagrid prepared for multilingual projects, providing it an extended character sets covering over 2 hundred languages that use latin, cyrillic and arabic alphabets and adding a chosen variety of Open Type includes to manage alternate types and stylistic sets.
