Program is a type designer's typeface. It has to do with the craft of typeface design and the specific details and impacts that type designers fret over when they design type. It blends various structures, stem endings, and weight distributions not typically utilized in a single family of fonts. It features both rounded edges evoking the effects of recreation, and ink traps, the method utilized to counteract that impact. The concept was to develop a series of fonts with strong individualistic features, challenging the constraints of a main theme that is normally troubled a family of typefaces, while still relating to each other in regards to overall look and feel.
Program has 4 weights, while Program Narrow has 3. Rather of matching the total "color" in text settings between the Program and Program Narrow variations, as is frequently done, we matched the stem weights. This enables a more comfy matching of stem weights when combining the two variations at bigger sizes on posters or in headlines.
Structurally, the Program type family would be challenging to classify as it mixes different structural models. Program Book, for example, with its low contrast, has the features of a Neo-Grotesque with slight Humanist tendencies that are most visible in the calligraphic, brush- like tail endings of the lowercase a, d, b, k, u, and capital R and K. Program Narrow is decidedly more Modern in structure, with noticable vertical tension carried throughout all characters.
Program and Program Narrow diverge most significantly in the design of the a, c, e and s in both lowercase and capitals. In Program, the terminals of these curved characters are vertical. This opens up the counter spaces and increases legibility, adding to its fitness as a text font. In Program Narrow the terminals are horizontal. Bending the curves into themselves like this highlights the verticality of Program Narrow. The impact also creates more compact letter shapes making it an appropriate heading font.
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