It is a well behaved child but also a clever one, respectful of its sanserif parents while bringing them new joy. The result is a double design that in each style is well balanced and refined.įakt is a child of its time, offering choices efficiently and in an accessible way. Switch between options and letter shapes are subtly changed, altering Fakt's mood.

Instead, it offers a stylistic 'toggle' – to put it crudely: Helvetica-like or Futura-like. Fakt combines the best of each – of grotesk and geometrical sanserif traditions – but not by mere interpolation. The first Fakt design, a highly functional sanserif, was designed by Thomas Thiemich during 2008-2009 and was commercially released in 2010.įakt revisits archetypal sanserifs of earlier decades: Neue Haas Grotesk / Helvetica (the 1950s) and Futura (the 1920s). The Fakt superfamily spans across multiple stylistic variants: Fakt, Fakt Slab, Fakt Soft, Fakt Stencil, Fakt Slab Stencil, and Fakt Mono. Just like with Fakt Slab Stencil, Thomas has brought a magic touch and elegance to the industrial style of stencil typefaces, delivering a wonderfully practical tool to contemporary graphic designers. The Fakt superfamily spans across multiple stylistic variants: Fakt, Fakt Slab, Fakt Soft, Fakt Stencil, Fakt Slab Stencil, and Fakt Mono.TYPE BY Fakt Stencil is one Thomas Thiemich latest releases, and expands the Fakt powerhouse family with an additional stencil variant, published in May 2019 on the occasion of Type By launch. Additional features include small cap, lining and old style figures (each in tabular and proportional widths) fractions comprehensive superiors, inferiors, numerators and denominators case sensitive punctuation sets mathematical and monetary symbols arrows standard and discretionary ligatures (with their stylistic alternates) and a complete range of accents for all Western, Central and East European languages based on the Latin script.įakt is available in OTF CFF, TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 formats. Its character set includes small caps, stylistic alternates, and multiple figure sets. The Fakt font family has an extended range of thin weights, including the ethereal ‘Air’. Fakt's designer Thiemich views tradition from the present, and so has updated the past using today's tools and techniques with intelligence and cunning.įakt consists of ten weights of roman and italic designs, built around three widths.

Released in 2010, it is Theimich's second commercially released typeface, following his humanist sanserif Alto.ĭifferent from Alto, whose design speaks of the 1990s, Fakt revisits archetypal sanserifs of earlier decades: Neue Haas Grotesk / Helvetica (the 1950s) and Futura (the 1920s). TYPE BY Fakt, designed by Thomas Thiemich, is a highly functional sanserif.

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