Sabre FONT Download

Sabre was designed by Gareth Hague and published by Alias. Sabre contains 5 styles and family package options.  

I generally refer to our typefaces as 'graphic' rather than typographic. By that I mean their starting points are usually ways of constructing shapes and systems of shapes.

As with other Alias typefaces, Sabre has stone and wood cut letterforms as a starting point. What is interesting about lettercutting is the connection between shape and material. These beautifully crafted letterforms have a particular sharpness which reflects, of course, how they were made.

The idea of constructing letters from a kit of parts we first explored in early fonts Elephant and Factory. These are different in that they were very much grid-based, with a geometric structure. For Sabre I also had Fred Smeijers' stencil construction drawings in mind. These show how a set of components can be the basis for a crafted, elegant typeface. Sabre is quite a loose interpretation of this idea.

Sabre's graphic shape means it works well at large sizes, with a dramatic, angular impact. Its aim is to be typographic enough to function for blocks of small-size text too.

Font Family:
· Sabre Light
· Sabre Regular
· Sabre Medium
· Sabre Bold
· Sabre Black


File Size: 18.7 MB

Tags: engraving, graphic, incised, serif, wedge serif, wood cut

Release date: September 10, 2015

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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