The family is based on antique engraver's lettering templates called "masterplates." Professional stationers use a pantograph to manually transfer letters from these masterplates to a piece of copper or steel that is then etched to serve as a plate or die. This demanding technique is rare today given that most engravers now use a photographic process to make plates, where just about any font will do. But the lettering styles engravers popularized during the first half of the twentieth century-especially the engraver's sans-are still quite familiar and appealing.
Referencing various masterplates-which typically offer the alphabet, figures, an ampersand, and little else-Mark van Bronkhorst has drawn a comprehensive toolkit of nine weights, each offering upper- and lowercase forms, small caps, true italics, arbitrary fractions, and various figure sets designed to harmonize with text, small caps, and all-caps. The fonts are available as basic, Standard character sets, and as Pro character sets offering a variety of typographic features and full support for Western and Central European languages.
Though rich in history, Sweet Sans is made for contemporary use. It is a handsome and functional tribute to the spirit of unsung craftsmanship.
Burin Sans and Sackers Gothic are trademarks of Monotype Imaging.
Font Family:
· Sweet Sans Pro ExtraLight
· Sweet Sans Pro ExtraLight Italic
· Sweet Sans Pro Light
· Sweet Sans Pro Light Italic
· Sweet Sans Pro
· Sweet Sans Pro Italic
· Sweet Sans Pro Medium
· Sweet Sans Pro Medium Italic
· Sweet Sans Pro Bold
· Sweet Sans Pro Bold Italic
· Sweet Sans Pro Heavy
· Sweet Sans Pro Heavy Italic
File Size: 14.42 MB