Diverda Serif Complete Family Pack

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 [...]

The Designer After completing an apprenticeship as an engraver, Daniel Lanz – who was born in 1958 in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) – spent 20 years carving letterforms and contours into metal. A second apprenticeship in typographic design – with intensive study of works by Gill, Meier, and Frutiger – considerably depend his interest in the forms and effects of typography. Digitizing hand-drawn sketches into the skeletal forms of the alphabet, Lanz began developing various ideas for broader [...]

Font Designer: Daniel Lanz, 2004 Diverda™ is a geometric type family that is free of ornamentation. The x-heights are low, and the differences between curved, square, and triangular elements is very clear. Like the more calligraphic typefaces of the past, Diverda´s strokes exhibit contrast that is inspired by movements of the pen on paper; down strokes are heavier than up strokes. The family contains both slab serif and sans serif styles; the sans serifs form the basis of the [...]

Dessinateur: Daniel Lanz, 2004

Diverda Serif Complete Family Pack appartient à la Diverda™ Serif famille de polices qui fait partie de la Linotype Originals.

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