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Extra Bold: Extreme
These fonts are the boldest, heaviest typefaces available. Some are so thick they don’t even have counters.
See also “Extra Bold” on the FontFeed and extra bold fonts.
FF Extra is an ultra heavy, minimal sans serif. The family includes two widths: regular and condensed. The extra blackness of FF Extra came about while Paul H. Neville, the typeface’s designer, was reading Erik Gill’s book “An Essay on Typography.” At one point in the book, Gill illustrates how typefaces are NOT to be designed. His exhibit shows, among other things, a capital A that is very... Read More
FF Zan is a fun titling typeface that started its life as part of the phototype collection of Hollenstein in 1970. Originally designed as a headline for a book of Delpire publishing house, Albert Hollenstein found the letters quite interesting and asked Albert Boton to make a complete alphabet. Together with FF Aircraft, FF District Bold and FF Studio, FF Zan is part of the FF Bastille... Read More
“There are many Bauhaus style fonts on the net/in the different libraries. For me, there were no questions about hungarian influences. I’d be authentic with letterforms (using some samples according to Bauhaus designers) nonetheless, I wanted to commemorate Hungarian designers/teachers (Breuer, Moholy-Nagy, Molnár e.t.c. to new Bauhaus: Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier or anyhow Kassák of... Read More