Designer: Nils
ThomsenPensum is a typeface for text, text and absolutely nothing however text. A pure beast, straight and plain, it will dependably set word after word, line after line and paragraph after paragraph. Often a spark of the hot, curved and sharply ink-trapped italic will slip into proceedings but the plain workhorse will continue setting text. Deep inside, some sharp details are concealed and some brushy and smooth shapes hide, waiting to expose themselves in big sizes.
But seriously… … Pensum, the brush and broad-nib motivated font style includes 9 weights from thin to black in addition to matched italics. The strong serifs combined with the low contrast make it outstanding for long text, whether in books or publications. Pensum's robust in even smaller sized sizes, where its ink-traps which finely balanced contrast can work their magic-- and those exact same details make it impressive in headlines or large italic quotes. Its exceptionally thin designs can provide a trendy and trendy appearance, while the strong black weights are great for the rough and tumble of mountain sports.
With more than a thousand glyphs and great deals of OpenType functions, Pensum can satisfy every typographic need. For lovers of book typography, the small caps are wider than the caps and you will find punctuation in case and small-cap sensitive variations. Pensum's Adobe Latin 3 encoding is a TypeMates requirement and provides a wide variety of flexibility for Latin language support.
Was honoured in Typographica's Favorite Typefaces of 2016
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