Designed by Rian Hughes,
Paralucent is a sans serif and stencil font family. This typeface has thirty-five styles and was published by Device.
Designed to be a warm and versatile all-purpose modern sans in the tradition of Univers and Helvetica, but avoiding the calligraphic idiosyncrasies of the latter or the foregrounded optical corrections of the former.
Paralucent is available in a wide range of weights from Thin to Heavy, in two widths each with italics.
There are two additions to the core 28-weight family: a three-weight stencil set, and a four weight text family. The text weights have been adjusted for use at small point sizes, and feature more open character shapes, looser inter-letter
spacing for improved readability, and lining numerals for use in listings and tables.
Several core ideas inform Paralucent’s design. Prime attention has given to the negative space between characters, giving a more even “colour”, especially in text. For example, the J, L and
T have shorter arms than comparable sans typefaces. The A has a lower bar, opening up the interior counter. An unusually high lower-case x-height again helps to give a more even colour and improve legibility.
Care has been taken to rationalise repeated elements like the tails on lower-case letters, the Qand the “ear” of the g. Typographic design solutions that are consistent across all these features add to its stylistic cohesion.
Font Family:·
Paralucent Thin·
Paralucent Thin Italic·
Paralucent Extra Light·
Paralucent Extra Light Italic·
Paralucent Light·
Paralucent Light Italic·
Paralucent Medium·
Paralucent Medium Italic·
Paralucent Demi Bold·
Paralucent Demi Bold Italic·
Paralucent Bold·
Paralucent Bold Italic·
Paralucent Heavy·
Paralucent Heavy Italic·
Paralucent Condensed Thin·
Paralucent Condensed Thin Italic·
Paralucent Condensed Extra Light·
Paralucent Condensed Extra Light Italic·
Paralucent Condensed Light·
Paralucent Condensed Light Italic·
Paralucent Condensed Medium·
Paralucent Condensed Medium Italic·
Paralucent Condensed Demi Bold·
Paralucent Condensed Demi Bold Italic·
Paralucent Condensed Bold·
Paralucent Condensed Bold Italic·
Paralucent Condensed Heavy·
Paralucent Condensed Heavy Italic·
Paralucent Stencil Extra Light·
Paralucent Stencil Medium·
Paralucent Stencil Heavy·
Paralucent Text Book·
Paralucent Text Book Italic·
Paralucent Text Bold·
Paralucent Text Bold ItalicFile Size: 3.55 MB
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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