The German designer Renate Weise created the fonts Linotype Charon™ (1999) and Linotype Scriptuale™ (2003).
Linotype Charon is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the entries of the 1999 International Digital Type Design Contest for inclusion on the TakeType 3.1 CD.
Renate Weise studied fine arts in Mainz and works today as a freelance artist. Weise sees Charon as "a typeface with two sides to it. Charon is objective and classic, but not neutral, not an everyday typeface. Charon is
[...]A display font of the TakeType No. 3.1.
Renate Weise is the designer of Linotype Charon. She studied fine arts in Mainz and works today as a freelance artist. Weise sees Charon as "a typeface with two sides to it. Charon is objective and classic, but not neutral, not an everyday typeface. Charon is modern and its animated, curving letters seek to touch the reader. The font is the moderator, which brings content to the reader, but should in itself make the reader curious." Charon is also
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Font Designer: Renate Weise
Linotype Charon™ is a display family from Renate Weise. The typeface has two sides to it: both objective and classic, it is neither neutral nor an everyday typeface. Linotype Charon is modern and animated. Its curving letters seek to touch the reader. With its light swing and script-like character, Linotype Charon is optimal for both short texts or headlines.
The design of this typeface clearly comes from writing – either from a pen or perhaps a
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