Soleil is a sans serif font family that excels in geometric tranquility. Where other geometric typefaces lean toward the austere or bland, Soleil gives slight hints of a real personality and bring what could have been another tasteless sans into our current time.
London’s battle of the balconies.
Click to EditThe debate about Britain’s future has taken an unexpected new twist: a battle between north London neighbors.
Click to EditLONDON (Reuters) – The debate about Britain’s future in the Europe has taken an unexpected new twist: A “battle of the balconies” between north London neighbors unfurling competing pro- and anti-Brexit banners.
Unimpressed by a large “Vote Leave” banner appearing on the balcony next door, a man named by British media as Frank Chalmers, 61, unveiled his own sign that added the words, “…if you want to cut workers’ rights”.
The leafy, suburban locale was not previously regarded as a key battleground in the debate around the June 23 referendum on Britain’s EU membership. The story emerged after Chalmers’ son, Malcolm tweeted a picture of the opposing balconies and wrote: “My parents’ neighbors have put up a large ‘Vote Leave’ sign. It seems my dad’s response is to get creative. #Remain.” He told the London Evening Standard newspaper that his father gave his neighbors a bottle of wine as a peace offering.
Click to EditA tranquil and fresh geometric sans font family for clear text and headlines.
Soleil is Wolfgang Homola’s sans serif font family that excels in geometric tranquility. Where other geometric typefaces lean toward the austere or bland, Soleil gives slight hints of a real personality and bring what could have been another tasteless sans into our current time.
Soleil sets itself apart through measured characteristics which recognise its rational heritage and still grant it personality. The circle and square provided the obvious foundation for Soleil’s letterforms, but many optical corrections were necessary in order to introduce more fluidity into the rather stiff concept of a contemporary geometric typeface. These include asymmetrical counters, a lowercase ‘m’ with a second shoulder that meets while the first is still curving, the increased slant on the top of the ‘t’ as the weight increases, and a large x-height for legibility at a distance or in small sizes. Its personality is seen, for example, in the friendly lowercase ‘f’, the perfect curve of the open ‘c’, the large x-height, and the ampersand. The italics were also meticulously designed rather than simply slanted through digital means.
Soleil is based on the modernist ideas of clarity and reduction to essential forms. Its lettershapes, however, are not the result of brute geometric construction, but of a design process that brings together simplicity with fluid rhythm. Soleil fits a wide range of potential applications: signage and wayfinding systems, book and magazine design, branding and corporate publications.
Soleil consists of seven weights with respective italics and a twisting, two-sided Escher-like display style called Magic Caps. Its character set covers over 100 languages that use the Latin script. OpenType features allow for the implementation of typographic niceties such as small caps, both tabular and proportional lining and oldstyle figures, ligatures, alternate characters, case-sensitive variants, and fractions. All together, Soleil’s contemporary and pleasing characteristics make it a great choice to replace overused or unpalatable geometric typefaces. The complete Soleil family, along with our entire catalogue, has been optimised for today’s varied screen uses.
CREDITS
Lead design and concept
Wolfgang Homola
Engineering
Joancarles Casasín
Sonja Stange
Quality assurance
Azza Alameddine
Kerning
Radek Sidun
Graphic design
Elena Veguillas
Rabab Charafeddine
Copywriting
Joshua Farmer
A rarity for screens: A serif family purposely created for long reading and superlative UI performance.
12 styles from Thin to Extrabold for Display and 8 styles for Text, plus a free Icon font.
Latin script support for 100+ languages.
User-Interfaces (UI), digital platforms, and intensive editorial use.
A high velocity sans serif with a bold voice and daring curves.
9 styles plus matching italics.
Latin script support for 100+ languages.
Multiple purpose font, works well in branding and editorial design alike.
Basic ligatures, case-sensitive forms, class kerning, contextual alternates, denominators & numerators, fractions, alternative fractions, historical forms, 4 sets of figures (oldstyle numerals, lining figures, proportional figures and tabular figures), lo
A modern and indestructible serif font family with strong links to tradition.
5 styles, 6 styles News and 6 styles Headline
Latin script support for 100+ languages.
Editorial design, particularly newspapers.
Small caps, 5 sets of figures, and arbitrary fractions,
A classy throwback text font family with a fearless and venturesome display.
Four text styles and one striking Display
Latin script support for 100+ languages
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Several sets of figures, small caps, stylistic alternates, and arrows.
TypeTogether is an indie type foundry committed to excellence in type design with a focus on editorial use. Additionally, TypeTogether creates custom type design for corporate use. We invite you to browse our library of retail fonts or contact us to discuss custom type design projects.
