MVB Solano Gothic Bold
MVB Solano Gothic Bold	$29.00
MVB Solano Gothic Bold Retro
MVB Solano Gothic Bold Retro	$29.00
MVB Solano Gothic Bold SC
MVB Solano Gothic Bold SC	$29.00
MVB Solano Gothic Bold Retro SC
MVB Solano Gothic Bold Retro SC	$29.00
MVB Solano Gothic Bold Cap
MVB Solano Gothic Bold Cap	$29.00
MVB Solano Gothic Bold Retro Cap
MVB Solano Gothic Bold Retro Cap	$29.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: August 15th, 2007
Designed by: Mark van Bronkhorst
Designed when: 2007
Contained in Categories: Decorative & Display, Engraved, Legible, Sans Serif
Design owned by: MVB
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MVB Solano Gothic

MVB Solano Gothic was designed as a display face for the City of Albany, California, located on the San Francisco Bay facing the Golden Gate Bridge and surrounded by the Berkeley hills. The City’s character is perhaps defined by its 1920s bungalows and its enlightened, small-town community within an otherwise major urban area (20 minutes to downtown San Francisco, traffic permitting).

The Solano Gothic fonts, named for the City’s main street, needed to work on signage in proximity to older buildings, in contemporary settings, and for general print and web use. Rather than creating a neutered design to cover all bases, Mark van Bronkhorst chose to develop a simple, strong, condensed face that would offer flexibility of style by providing both retro and neutral forms.

The basic “Bold” and “Bold Retro” fonts offer upper- and lowercase forms, with figures designed for upper- and lowercase settings (figures are not full-cap height). The same figures are provided with small caps (SC), and align to small cap height. For all-cap settings requiring figures of full-cap height, there are the “Caps” fonts. An alternate tabular “1” is provided in all fonts so that both fitted and tabular settings of figures are possible (access to alternate characters subject to system or application support).

The Pro versions simplify matters. They combine upper- and lowercase forms, small caps, various figures, fractions, superior/inferior figures; offer automated features (subject to application support); and provide extended language support.

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