Generis (font)
Generis is the name of a font family from Erik Faulhaber . It was published by Linotype in November 2006 .
Generis consists of four font families with a total of 42 font weights . The font families are in detail:
- Generis Sans , without serifs (a grotesque variant)
- Generis Serif , with fine, grooved serifs (an Antiqua variant)
- Generis Simple , without serifs, without spurs (a grotesque variant)
- Generis Slab , with strong, straight serifs (an Egyptienne variant)
Generis has a maximum of six weights: Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Heavy, real italics , small caps and old style figures .
Erik Faulhaber came up with the idea for Generis during a trip to the USA. The advertising messages in a business district inspired him to design a new system font. The first drafts were made in 1997.
Generis is a font family (or hybrid font ) made up of four font families with a uniform skeleton and different shape characteristics. The classic classification for typefaces consists of Grotesk, Antiqua and Egyptienne. The Generis is the first of its kind to have a second, simplified grotesque, the Generis Simple .
For Faulhaber, the focus during development was on harmony, rhythm, legibility and formal limits. Through the combination of aesthetic, technical and economic advantages, with Generis he created a typeface with the highest performance.
By combining the four font families (e.g. Generis Serif with Generis Sans ), Generis allows the user to create a wide variety of documents with a visual context. Further characteristics of the generis are their clear and narrow basic form (this enables high legibility and a lot of text in a small space), and their systematics within the mathematical symbols (this allows correct tabular typesetting in connection with numbers).