The idea for Generis came to Erik Faulhaber while he was traveling in the USA. Seeing typefaces mixed together in a business district motivated him to create a new type system with interrelated forms.
The first design scheme came about in 1997, following the space saving model of American Gothics. As development progressed, a serif face, a slab serif design, and a further simplified sans serif were added.
Consisting in each case of two typographic styles with and without serifs, Generis
[...]Introduction
Many typeface catalogs, including our own, group all serif typefaces together under one umbrella-category. But in truth, there are many different kinds of serifs, e.g., Renaissance serifs, baroque serifs, unbracketed modern serifs, Latin serifs, wedge serifs, etc. One of the most popular styles of seriffed letter, especially for display type, remains the slab serif.
The slab serif is a genre of letterforms that has been in use for almost 200 years. Throughout this time, many
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Like the very popular CompatilŪ, Linotype’s Generis Type System is a matrix of four typeface families. Generis Serif, Generis Sans, Generis Simple, and Generis Slabs weights are quadraplexed across each type stye. This means that you can change any amount of text set in one style of Generis to another without affecting line wrap. Highlight a few words from a text set in Generis Serif with Generis Simple, for example, and the position of each character will remain in exactly the same
[...]Used in tiny point sizes for pharmaceutical instructions, or enormously as Supermarket signage: the four styles within the Generis type system can all be combined, giving a range of options that stimulates creativity and provides a wide variety of typographic expression.
The elegant serif style, with a classical essence.
The stable slab serif, with technical characteristics.
The clear sans serif, with an objective appearance.
The simplified sans serif, with a contemporary
[...]Born in Germany (1966). Studied Graphic-Design in Karlsruhe. Freelance designer since 1996. Held teaching assignments in Halle, Weimar and Wuppertal.
In 2006 Erik Faulhaber designed GenerisŪ. Generis is a system of four compatible typeface families, each variant drawn in a different generic style, perfectly suitable for almost any design application.
In 2009, Erik Faulhaber created Aeonis™, a classic-style sans serif typeface family with a clear, minimalistic design.
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