Gineto Font Family is a clean and airy contemporary grotesque, tailored for small sizes. The design concept developed from the brevier size of Gothic no. 4, a nineteen century design by the New York type foundry Farmer, Little & Co.. This brevier features slightly narrow shapes with generous letter-spacing and long ascenders and descenders.
Although expected in a cut for small sizes, these features are charmingly striking in Gothic no. 4, specially with the elongate dot of the i, that aligns at ascender height.
Gineto’s design echoes the spacious and ventilated construction of Gothic no.4, letting the white come through abundantly, and avoiding closed letter-forms, that in grotesques often generate confusion, like the 6 or 3. We also gave each letter the most unambiguous shape, and the most spread out configuration.
In the process of fashioning Gineto there were ideas drawn in from Adrian Frutiger’s OCR B, a typeface designed to be machine-readable but also pleasant to the human eye. Gineto was also infused with a little bit of Akzidenz Grotesk feel to bring its overall look a bit closer to the European sans serifs tradition.
Both Gineto and Gineto Fit families share the same design and offer two sets of letters with different ascender and descender lengths. Gineto features long ascenders and descenders by default, with shorter ones as stylistic alternates (ss02). Conversely, Gineto Fit has shorter extenders by default, with the longer ones available as alternates (ss02).
Many thanks to R-Typography for making a demo version of this beautiful font available to everyone. Should you find Gineto Fonts helpful, we highly recommend upgrading to the full edition. The complete version includes a commercial license along with a range of additional features. You can review the purchase and licensing information below.
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