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Download nowDesigners: Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli, Maria Chiara Fantini
Publisher: Zetafonts
Stinger was designed by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli, Maria Chiara Fantini and published by Zetafonts. Stinger contains 42 styles and family package options. The font is currently #39 in Hot New Fonts. 

Since their first appearance as Italians on the pages of the 1821 William Caslon type specimens, reverse contrast typefaces have been typography's best loved quirky outcasts. Subverting the traditional relationship between thick verticals and thin horizontals made them perfect for eye-catching advertisements. The unexpected contrasts and the thick slabs produced by reverse-contrast serifs became ubiquitous in period posters, and synonymous with wild west and circus iconography.

In designing Stinger, the Zetafonts design team composed by Maria Chiara Fantini, Andrea Tartarelli and Francesco Canovaro and orchestrated by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini decided to marry this subversive tradition with the workhorse approach of modernist sans serif typefaces like Univers, developing a super-family with four widths, each in five different weights, from thin to heavy. This gives the designer a full range of options for type setting, with the Normal and Fit widths providing two different text-sized alternatives, the wide width adding display and titling options and the Slim ready to deal with the space-saving necessities of extremely long texts. True italics have been added developed for all weights and variants, bringing the Stinger family to a total of 40 fonts, with a latin extended + Russian Cyrillic character set covering over 200 languages, and open type features including positional numbers, stylistic sets and alternate forms. 

In the crowded panorama of contemporary grotesque typefaces, all aiming to stark geometric perfection, Stinger stands out with its bold choices and strong personality. From the calligraphy-inspired terminals in the thin weights to the logo-ready sculptural approach in the heavy weights, each variant manages to look striking without forgetting the readability and flexibility lessons of modern reverse-contrast classics like those designed by Excoffon or Novarese. A variable version is included with the full family, allowing maximum flexibility and control for the designer over the wide range of expression capabilities of the Stinger super family.

Font Family:
· Stinger Slim Thin
· Stinger Slim Thin Italic
· Stinger Slim Light
· Stinger Slim Light Italic
· Stinger Slim Regular
· Stinger Slim Italic
· Stinger Slim Bold
· Stinger Slim Bold Italic
· Stinger Slim Heavy
· Stinger Slim Heavy Italic
· Stinger Thin
· Stinger Thin Italic
· Stinger Light
· Stinger Light Italic
· Stinger Regular
· Stinger Italic
· Stinger Bold
· Stinger Bold Italic
· Stinger Heavy
· Stinger Heavy Italic
· Stinger Fit Thin
· Stinger Fit Thin Italic
· Stinger Fit Light
· Stinger Fit Light Italic
· Stinger Fit Regular
· Stinger Fit Italic
· Stinger Fit Bold
· Stinger Fit Bold Italic
· Stinger Fit Heavy
· Stinger Fit Heavy Italic
· Stinger Wide Thin
· Stinger Wide Thin Italic
· Stinger Wide Light
· Stinger Wide Light Italic
· Stinger Wide Regular
· Stinger Wide Italic
· Stinger Wide Bold
· Stinger Wide Bold Italic
· Stinger Wide Heavy
· Stinger Wide Heavy Italic
· Stinger Variable Regular
· Stinger Variable Italic


File Size: 14.55 MB


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Release date: April 22, 2020

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