It isn’t always easy to correctly identify a typeface’s unique nature and special characteristics. At first glance, many people might mistake Mano® for a script font.
Spontaneous and friendly: Mano’s light expression is especially well suited for use with food and cosmetic products.
Font Designer: Marco Ganz, 1988
Mano® is a fresh new font from the Swiss designer Marco Ganz. Urgent and vital, the typeface suggests swift communication or the latest trends: spontaneous and informal, personal and individual. Ganz deliberately gave the characters a marked lean to the right, similar to that of quick handwriting. But Mano is not only nimble and quick, it also retains its legibility as a text font. Mano is as dynamic, brisk and casual as modern pop music.
Font Designer: Marco Ganz, 1988
Mano® is a fresh new font from the Swiss designer Marco Ganz. Urgent and vital, the typeface suggests swift communication or the latest trends: spontaneous and informal, personal and individual. Ganz deliberately gave the characters a marked lean to the right, similar to that of quick handwriting. But Mano is not only nimble and quick, it also retains its legibility as a text font. Mano is as dynamic, brisk and casual as modern pop music.
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Veto
The underlying intention in the case of Veto® was to create a new and original sans serif font. For example, the lower case Veto letters are of normal width, while the upper case letters are quite clearly much narrower in proportion. This is because Marco Ganz considers that if miniscule letters are too narrow they are difficult to read (see Rotis®) while majescules that are too wide not only have an outmoded effect but take up too much space (see Helvetica®).
Which font
[...]Marco Ganz. Born in Zürich in 1961. Attended Zürich School of Design, completed graphic design apprenticeship, established own graphic design studio in 1983. Designed Mano®, a script-like text face. Worked as graphic designer in New York from 1987 to 1989, then returned to Zürich. Designed Veto® sans-serif type family. Won national design prizes in 1990 and 1996. Independent artist since 1993, regular exhibitions since 1997, of which 5 solo exhibitions at Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zürich.
[...]The letters seem to touch each other – that is the main characteristic of a script font. While a true script font tries to imitate the original character of individual handwriting, the decisive difference with Mano is that no attempt is made to create seeming connections between the letters.
The limited selection of serviceable script fonts stems from the overall difficulty of convincingly simulating the connections that occur between letters when one writes quickly. English script fonts are
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