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Fakir Pro

Fakir™ Pro

by Underware
Individual Styles from $50.00 USD
Complete family of 11 fonts: $312.50 USD
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Fakir Pro Font Family was designed by Bas Jacobs, Akiem Helmling, Sami Kortemäki and published by Underware. Fakir Pro contains 11 styles and family package options.

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Fakir Pro Complete

 11 fonts

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Per Style:

$28.40 USD

Pack of 11 styles:

$312.50 USD

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Fakir Pro Display Set

 6 fonts

Per Style:

$28.12 USD

Pack of 6 styles:

$168.75 USD

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Fakir Pro Text Set

 5 fonts

Per Style:

$33.75 USD

Pack of 5 styles:

$168.75 USD

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Fakir Pro Hobby Set

 2 fonts

Per Style:

$46.87 USD

Pack of 2 styles:

$93.75 USD

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About Fakir Pro Font Family

Fakir | A Hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance. The well known feats performed by them include sitting steadily on a bed of nails and walking on burning coals. Blackletter | A script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 to 1500. It continued to be used for the German language until the 20th century. Fakir, a blackletter with a holy kiss is a contemporary interpretation of gone letterforms with origin in blackletters. More precisely, we based the construction on broadnip textura, with lots of broken, edgy, interrupted strokes – try to sit on a nail bed and you’ll know why fakirs like to read just these kind of fonts! After being abandoned for some time (not accepted, nearly forbidden), we would like to give our generation a blackletter from here and now. So Fakir is not a revival, but an all new 21st-century blackletter. Fakir is a set of edgy text and display fonts, ranging from tight and heavy to light and wide. It has 11 fonts, all supporting Underware Latin Plus character set, that covers 219 languages.

Designers: Bas Jacobs, Akiem Helmling, Sami Kortemäki

Publisher: Underware

Foundry: Underware

Design Owner: Underware

MyFonts debut: Aug 7, 2006

Fakir™ Pro is a trademark of Underware.

About Underware

Underware (www.underware.nl) is a rock-hard font foundry with a whole lot of feeling for real type. Stunning retail fonts, exclusive branding, custom type for demanding clients, own freaky design tools, you name it. Sweating & rocking in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam. Founded by Akiem Helmling, Sami Kortemäki and Bas Jacobs in 1999. Underware's creations have received many awards - recently their innovative dynamic writing fonts received Gold in German Design Award 2021, Certificate of Excellence at TDC New York 2020 and Winner at TDC Tokyo 2020. More about dynamic writing at www.grammato.com. Three separate locations don't limit the way they cooperate with each other. This is how underwarers themselves describe the process: "Our intense cooperation creates surprises by itself. A collaboration offers possibilities which individuals can't benefit from. For example: sometimes all of us reserve a whole day for sketching new type. Early in the morning one of us sends a picture to one of the others, and that person has to create a typeface which fits for this picture within one day. A quick and easy way to push our creative borders, and surprise yourself. We usually start sketching on paper, sometimes very rough with a pen during a phone talk, other times more precisely with a brush or pencil in a more concentrated moment. Sketching by hand allows you to find new forms, to create a specific, unique style. Once you've found that style, the rest of the characters are digitally created and fine-tuned. During the following design process, eg when additional weights are being created, we occasionally return to sketching on paper to find new solutions for problems we meet in the digital process. But in the end, it doesn't matter if the computer or a brush or pencil are your tools. The most important tool is your brain."

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