Typeface Revival for a Mid-Century Slab Serif
A 1956 slab serif rebuilt for variable-font control
Consort Recast is Dalton Maag's revival of the slab serif originally issued by Stephenson Blake in 1956. Designer Yingtong Tan led the revival, adding variable Weight and Width axes to extend the typeface's mid-century character into a flexible contemporary system. The family supports Latin script across more than 790 languages.
Set in Consort Recast
Insights
- The revival adds both Weight and Width variable axes to a typeface originally released as a fixed mid-century slab, expanding its typographic range without altering its period character.
- OpenType features include case-sensitive forms, fractions, ordinals, proportional and tabular numerals, superscript, subscript, and all-caps support.
- Latin-script coverage spans more than 790 languages.
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