Serif Typeface for Fontfabric
A graduation project turned commercial serif family
Auge (German for 'eye') originated in 2017 as a graduation project by Nikolay Petroussenko before Fontfabric developed and released it in May 2023 under the direction of Plamen Motev and Viktoria Usmanova. The serif family draws formal inspiration from insect anatomy, translating that reference into high-contrast strokes and wedge serifs. It includes variable-font Roman and Italic files alongside static styles, with Extended Latin and Cyrillic coverage and a broad OpenType feature set.
Set in Auge
Insights
- The project moved from academic graduation work (2017) to a commercially released family (2023), a six-year development arc.
- Wedge serifs and high contrast are explicitly tied to insect anatomical observation rather than historical type revival.
- The release includes two variable font files—Roman VF and Italic VF—alongside static styles.
- OpenType feature set covers ligatures, stylistic alternates, case-sensitive forms, oldstyle and tabular figures, fractions, superscripts, and subscripts.
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