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 ExtraLight
· Sweet Sans ExtraLight Small Caps
· Sweet Sans ExtraLight Italic
· Sweet Sans ExtraLight Italic Small Caps
· Sweet Sans Light
· Sweet Sans Light Small Caps
· Sweet Sans LightItalic
· Sweet Sans Light Italic Small Caps
· Sweet Sans
· Sweet Sans Small Caps
· Sweet Sans Italic
· Sweet Sans Italic Small Caps
· Sweet Sans Medium
· Sweet Sans Medium Small Caps
· Sweet Sans Medium Italic
· Sweet Sans Medium Italic Small Caps
· Sweet Sans Bold
· Sweet Sans Bold Small Caps
· Sweet Sans Bold Italic
· Sweet Sans Bold Italic Small Caps
· Sweet Sans Heavy
· Sweet Sans Heavy Small Caps
· Sweet Sans Heavy Italic
· Sweet Sans Heavy Italic Small Caps
File Size: 19.91 MB