Publisher: Canada TypeKumlien Pro is the revival and expansion of a typeface designed in 1943 by Akke Kumlien, the famed Swedish book designer, poet, author, painter and arts products expert. At the time, being the very first significant Swedish typeface to be designed in over a century, it ended up being an immediate hit with publishing homes in Sweden. To this really day it remains revered as one of very couple of historical and original Swedish typefaces.
Transitional in general appearance and idiosyncractic in detail, Kumlien Pro makes use of the oldstyle style however likewise makes excellent use of the 1930s and 1940s European deco aesthetic in its upright weights, and utilizes a rare calligraphic sharpness/roundness for its amazingly stunning, nearly postmodern italic.
The initial metal typeface was available in just roman, vibrant and italic variations. This unique digitization introduces a medium weight, a condensed variation, little caps and alternates in all upright designs, and plenty of swashes, ending types and alternates in the italic. Kumlien Pro also includes a extra-large character set, with over 610 characters per typeface, to include support for an extended range of Latin-based languages. All Pro fonts ship with their non-Pro TTF equivalents, for those who use programs that do not support OpenType features.
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