- Price:
- SALE! $80.00 USD for all 12 weights (instant download)
- Designers:
- Ian Lynam
- Publisher:
- Wordshape
- Categories:
- Fonts
Try Me
Stamen is the answer to a big question: What would happen if one tried to create a family of typefaces that was ‘out of time’?
If a type designer was to turn off the internet and put away the type specimens and just try to explore limbic, phantom history, what might that look like?
No slavish explorations of the past. No gropings toward the future. No exhaustive core sample of the contemporary. Instead, using what one remembers of history and our collective vision of the future (usually a future imagined from the past) and channeling that into something that is, hopefully, new…
The Bentons meet Frutiger for a Manhattan on a space station while Matthew Carter sways to the sweet sounds of the chorale that occasionally played through the halls of Stephenson Blake.
This smear of implicit history expressed without explicit reference—this is Stamen: a family of 12 typefaces with a ton of alternate characters.
The bold weight was designed for the LP “I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler” ( http://ittfwbc.com/ ) by the band YACHT in response to their request for a typeface that was ‘lost in time’, and refers to neither strict historical models nor purely futuristic forms.
I built a small family out from there. It works well in text, but just as well for display setting. I think you’ll enjoy using it.
Download includes both OpenType and TrueType versions of Stamen in these weights:
– Thin
– Thin Italic
– ExtraLight
– ExtraLight Italic
– Light
– Light Italic
– Regular
– Italic
– Bold
– Bold Italic
– Heavy
– Heavy Italic
For a limited time only, and only through Wordshape, the entire family is available for $80 for all weights.
Please note:
The user license applies to single-user desktop use or a single webfont license for Stamen. If you’d like to license Stamen for desktop and webfont use, you will need to acquire two licenses.
All Wordshape typefaces are provided in desktop OpenType (.otf), TrueType (.ttf) and web font (.eot, .ttf, .woff, .woff2) formats and will be included in your immediately downloaded .zip file.
