Typeface Design for Conductor
Lottery tickets and shopfronts as type research
Conductor is a type family by Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger, with contributions by Fred Shallcrass. Bulgarian lottery ticket numerals and vernacular shopfront lettering informed the design. It pairs a rectangular roman with a structurally distinct triangular italic, offered in four widths from Condensed to Wide.
Set in Conductor
Insights
- The italic uses a triangular construction distinct from the rectangular roman, producing a structural contrast rather than a conventional sloped variant.
- Vernacular commercial lettering—Bulgarian lottery tickets and shopfronts—served as visual research rather than historical typeface models.
- The family spans four widths, from Condensed to Wide.
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