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Ten years from one letterform to a four-script family
Sukoon is a multi-script typeface family by Jan Gerner (Yanone), developed over ten years from a single letterform sketched during a period of deep personal calm. The design spans Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, with 10 styles and a variable font offering three axes: weight, Kashida width, and Swash width. Released in 2026, it received a Silber at the Designpreis für Design aus Deutschland. Development of the family prompted Gerner to begin building an entirely new font editor, Counterpunch.
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Insights
- The variable font includes three axes—weight, Kashida width, and Swash width—accommodating both Latin and Arabic typographic conventions in a single file.
- Arabic script consultancy involved four specialists; Cyrillic and Greek each had dedicated consultants, reflecting structured multi-script development.
- Work on Sukoon directly led Gerner to begin developing a new font editor called Counterpunch, currently in progress.
- The woff2 web file for the full family weighs 429 KB.
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