Publisher: Indian Type FoundrySymphonie Grotesque is a household of neo-Grotesque-style sans serif fonts. There are 5 various weights available, ranging from Routine through Heavy. Each weight has an upright and an italic font available. Symphonie Grotesque's italics are what actually set it apart from other neo-Grotesque households. Instead of just providing inclined, or oblique versions of the upright fonts' letters, Symphonie Grotesque's italic fonts include several distinct, more cursive-style letterforms. For example, in Symphonie Grotesque's upright font styles, the 'a' is double-storey, while the 'g' is single-storey (simply what one would expect for a typeface of this genre). However in the italics, the 'a' ends up being single-storey, and the 'f' and 'ß' get coming down tails, too. Symphonie Grotesque's characters are tabular lining figures; the '1' always has a nice, large base-stroke at its bottom. The middle-two diagonal-strokes of the'M' remain visibly above the baseline in all of the family's styles. The font styles' ascenders rise a fair bit above the tops of the capital letters, but the capitals and the numerals both share the exact same height. Symphonie Grotesque is an excellent selection for use in branding or in other kinds of corporate identity style. It will surely likewise enter into good usage in style for galleries and publications about modern art. Symphonie Grotesque is the work of Frode Helland, a type designer from Norway.
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