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Obvia

Obvia™

by Typefolio
Individual Styles from $29.00 USD
Complete family of 18 fonts: $159.00 USD
Obvia Font Family was designed by Marconi Lima and published by Typefolio. Obvia contains 18 styles and family package options.

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    About Obvia Font Family


    Obvia, a geohumanist type for all media. Obvia appeared as a result of direct observation on typefaces classified as geometric and the plan to explore for the first time width axes - to be published soon - expanding its usability. The idea behind Obvia’s design was to create a distancing from geometrically pure shapes, in this case, square shapes. Then some details were added, such as subtle inktraps, concave endings of the stems and carefully drawn alternate characters, giving a ‘geohumanist’ tone to the font. This first family of Obvia has 9 weights ranging from Thin to Black with their respective italics, delivering a strong typographic identity, from the paper to the pixel.

    Designers: Marconi Lima

    Publisher: Typefolio

    Foundry: Typefolio

    Design Owner: Typefolio

    MyFonts debut: Jul 7, 2018

    Obvia™ is a trademark of Typefolio.

    About Typefolio

    “As far as I can remember I always observed typographic forms with unusual interest,” Marconi Lima, founder of TypeFolio said in his Creative Characters interview. “I was intrigued by their design and their phonetic value. Because I loved books and developed the habit of reading from an early age, I realized that there was more to letters than just the words they spelled out.” Based in Brazil, Marconi began working as a designer in an advertising agency in the mid-1990’s. This job opened his eyes to t...

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