Hermann was designed by Diego Aravena Silo, Salvador Rodríguez and published by W Foundry.
Hermann contains 10 styles and family package options.
Hermann is one of our most readable typefaces so far. Since last year, the W Design team had been examining closely the possibility of developing a text font. Thus, we dug into concepts within some of our favorite novels, such as The Steppenwolf and Brave New World, written by
Hermann Hesse and Aldous Huxley respectively. Ideas like duality, surrealism, and wildness mainly appeared. With these concepts in mind, we analyzed carefully the typefaces used in both Hesse's and Huxley's creations; Sabon and Garamond showed up catching our attention and, of course, awakening our admiration. Consequently, the challenge was to combine the key features of these fonts with the concepts already identified. At first, we made a text font which was suitable to compose long texts. However, we realized that we needed to refine some characteristics to convey all the ideas. A full set of capital discretionary ligatures was designed, which convert
Hermann in a display font when is required. We also designed swashes (from A-Z) and final forms (in letters h, k, m, n, r and x in romans, and in letters a, d, e, h, i, l, m, n, r, t, u, x and z in italics), conveying more dynamism and versatility when it comes to composing visually.
Hermann was designed not only to be accurate in terms of legibility but also to be wild and bold. That is why we took a big leap and designed from the beginning a font that is inspired by the world of 20th-century novels, using the name of one of its greatest exponents, Hermann Hesse.
Font Family:
· Hermann Regular
· Hermann Italic
· Hermann Semi Bold
· Hermann Semi Bold Italic
· Hermann Ultra Bold
· Hermann Ultra Bold Italic
· Hermann Black
· Hermann Black Italic
· Hermann Heavy
· Hermann Heavy Italic
File Size: 13.15 MB
Tags: 75% off,
antiqua, apps,
book, book text,
branding, business text,
classic,
decorative,
discounted,
elegant,
fashion,
formal,
garalde,
garamond,
german, heldere taal,
humanist,
legible,
light, magazines,
modern, newsletter,
novel,
old-style, old-style numerals,
osf,
packaging,
sabon,
serif, serif text, small caps,
swash, text
Release date: November 30, 2018
You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)
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