Sortie Super was created by Lewis McGuffie and released by Lewis McGuffie Type. Sortie Super contains 1 style. p > Sortie Super is a take on one of the kings of display lettering - Caslon's high-contrast, reversed tension 'Italian' style. It looks fantastic at big sizes and simply put flurries ... and shouldn't be used in restricted areas.

When compared with the original face, the weight and contrast of Sortie Super has been exaggerated. To add gravity to the letters I've increased their width overall and decreased the spacing to a hair-line fracture for added visual effect. Characters like'S', 'E',' O' and 'Z' are fairly close to their historical precedents - however the terminals on the 'C-G-S-З-Є', which have been drawn so to be more constant. Other aspects, such as the leg of the 'R' and 'Я', the peak of the 'A' and the spur of the 'G' are modified and streamlined, to help spacing and optical weight throughout the alphabet. Likewise, to minimize visual sound terminals in characters like 'C', 'J' and 'R" are horizontally lined up. On the other hand, the main horizontal strokes in the 'B', 'P' and 'R' etc are reduced to a hairline, so regarding create a more simplified system of thick-to-thin.

The temptation when drawing this sort of esoteric display alphabet is to begin to depend on modular parts. Which, while copy-paste-repeat is a sure-fire method to make the face more aesthetically constant, it's a lazy approach that risks allowing the font ended up being soulless and mechanical. An early experiment I made was making a monospaced variation, which was beneficial in headlines, however it lost that caring feeling. So, by maintaining a handful of flourishes-- the tail of the '?', the inky drop of the '!', the bulbous gloop of arms of the 'Ж' and 'К', the swirling legs in the 'R', ' Я' and 'Л', the big-bowling weight of the 'J' and ' U'-- plus a couple of in-built disparities and a bit of its own silliness, Sortie Super keeps some of the natural warmth of its ancestor. Alternatively, the counters, apertures and negative area are mainly strictly geometric, which assists give the revival font a little bit of a contemporary touch.

Sortie Super is an uppercase-only display font style that features Western, Central and East European Latin, extended Cyrillic, Pinyin, in addition to a set of hairline graphic functions and symbols.

Font Family: Sortie Super

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