Typeface Design for an Industrial-Inspired Font Family
Industrial-era ephemera, distilled into a living type system
Struve, by Schrift Foundry, draws its proportions and robust character from early 20th-century industrial typography. Alternative letterforms were developed by studying typographic ephemera of that period—work by artists, typographers, and writers—then systematised into stylistic sets. The typeface extends to support several minority languages, including Pintupi-Luritja, Záparo, Chickasaw, and Yukaghir.
Set in Struve
Insights
- Alternative forms were sourced by examining a range of early 20th-century typographic ephemera rather than a single reference.
- Variants were codified into a formal system of stylistic sets, translating historical irregularity into structured options.
- Language coverage includes endangered and geographically remote languages: Pintupi-Luritja (Australia), Záparo (Peru), Chickasaw (USA), and Yukaghir (Russian Far East).
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