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Synthica

Synthica

by Volcano Type
Individual Styles from $35.00 USD
Complete family of 2 fonts: $59.00 USD
Synthica Font Family was designed by Christoph Mescher and published by Volcano Type. Synthica contains 2 styles and family package options.

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    Synthica Family

    2 fonts

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    Per Style:

    $29.50 USD

    Pack of 2 styles:

    $59.00 USD

    About Synthica Font Family


    Synthica is the advanced version of a geometrically constructed typeface – designed for a thesis project in summer 2010 in Pforzheim. In the context of electronic music and the profound analysis of its parameters, this typeface is primarly based on a strict modular grid. Additionally, the ascender, descender and the x height had slightly been increased in order to even out a visual difference in size between the glyphs. The name „Synthica“ dervives from a basic principle in electronic sound synthesis. Sinus, triangle and square are some of the basic waveforms in the synthesizers’ oscillator section and were thus used as geometric modules for the grid. The modularity and geometry also derive from different structures of electronic music. The strong emphasis on diagonal lines creates a rhythmic typeface that connotates electronic music patterns with highly recognisable glyphs. The contrast between digital and analog is another basic idea of this typeface: while Synthica Outline has a more synthetic and fragile character, the filled version Synthica Black serves as the analog counterpart.

    Designers: Christoph Mescher

    Publisher: Volcano Type

    Foundry: Volcano Type

    Design Owner: Volcano Type

    MyFonts debut: Oct 15, 2012

    Synthica

    About Volcano Type

    Volcano Type is a independent font foundry based in Karlsruhe, Germany. The first course: a fast food youthfulness that was served for the first time in 1996. An earthy dish, created by chance, with thirteen organic fonts. Quickly whisked up and devoured. It rarely took more than a few days from sketch to use/digestion by the project. Uncouth forms, erupted from the bowels of the earth. Shattered letters, branded, stressed, humiliated. In order to produce arrogant fonts, far too expressive to last on a...

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