Bartok
Four styles, four different typographic histories
Designed by Sarah Kremer, Bartok is a four-style type family developed within an editorial design context. Its styles—Regular, Italic, Highlight, and Poster—deliberately reject formal unity, each drawing from a distinct historical typographic tradition. Shared proportions (x-heights and cap heights) and recurring curves allow the formally divergent styles to combine naturally across both text and display settings.
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Insights
- Regular draws from incunabula-era Humanist proportions, with asymmetrical serifs and slanted stems echoing calligraphic script.
- Italic references the chancery hand model, emphasizing cursivity, directional changes, and pronounced angles.
- Highlight adopts early grotesque structure with varying contrast and non-orthogonal terminals.
- Poster is optimized for large sizes, with intentional irregularities in alignment and varying angles alongside a heavy weight and rounded forms.
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