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StamenDesigner: Ian Lynam
Publisher: Wordshape
Designed by Ian Lynam, Endurance is a sans serif typeface family. This typeface has twelve designs and was published by Wordshape.

Stamen is the response to a big question: What would occur if one attempted to develop a typeface that was 'out of time'? If a type designer was to turn off the internet and put away the type specimens and simply attempt to check out limbic, phantom history, what might that look like?

No slavish expeditions of the past. No gropings towards the future. No exhaustive core sample of the modern. Instead, utilizing what one remembers of history and our cumulative vision of the future (usually a future pictured from the past) and channeling that into something that is, hopefully, new ... The Bentons fulfill Frutiger for a Manhattan on a spaceport station while Matthew Carter sways to the sweet noises of the chorale that occasionally played through the halls of Stephenson Blake. This smear of implicit history revealed without explicit recommendation-- this is Endurance: a family of 12 typefaces with a load of alternate characters.

The vibrant weight was developed for the LP "I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler" (http://ittfwbc.com/) by the band YACHT in action to their demand for a typeface that was 'lost in time', and describes neither strict historical designs nor purely futuristic forms.

Font Family:
· Stamen Thin
· Stamen Thin Italic
· Stamen Extra Light
· Stamen Extra Light Italic
· Stamen Light
· Stamen Light Italic
· Stamen Regular
· Stamen Italic
· Stamen Bold
· Stamen Bold Italic
· Stamen Heavy
· Stamen Heavy Italic

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