Kurs
Anxiety made typographic
Kurs is a display serif designed by Sandro Bonomo, released in 2024 by Blaze Type. Its concept frames the Renaissance as an anxious transition between Medieval and Modern paradigms — expressed formally through extreme thick-thin stroke contrast, flat and soft curves against spiky serifs and sharp terminals.
Set in Kurs
Insights
- Stroke contrast and serif sharpness serve as direct formal analogues to the conceptual opposition between historical paradigms.
- The name Kurs draws on the German word for 'course' while resonating phonetically with curse, cursive, and kursiv — all relevant to letterform history and appearance.
- Released as a variable font with TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 exports, supporting Latin European languages.
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