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Figgins Sans™

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Figgins Sans™ is a ShinnType font family with 4 styles priced from $79.00.

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Figgins Sans™


Figgins SansPurchase Options
  Figgins Sans Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesSmall CapsCentral EuropeBalticTurkishRomanianCyrillicGreek ModernOpenType AlternatesOpenType ContextualOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
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$79.00

Figgins Sans ItalicPurchase Options
  Figgins Sans Italic Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesSmall CapsCentral EuropeBalticTurkishRomanianCyrillicGreek ModernOpenType AlternatesOpenType ContextualOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
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$79.00

Figgins Sans BoldPurchase Options
  Figgins Sans Bold Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesSmall CapsCentral EuropeBalticTurkishRomanianCyrillicGreek ModernOpenType AlternatesOpenType ContextualOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
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$79.00

Figgins Sans Extra BoldPurchase Options
  Figgins Sans Extra Bold Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesSmall CapsCentral EuropeBalticTurkishRomanianCyrillicGreek ModernOpenType AlternatesOpenType ContextualOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
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$79.00

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 4th, 2008
Designed by: Nick Shinn
Designed when: 2008
Contained in Category: Legible
Design owned by: ShinnType
MyFonts Keywords: 1800s, book, book text, business text, certificate, conservative, cosmopolitan, English, fashionable, formal, greek, grotesk, headline, industry, legible, linear, modern, Modernism, neutral, news, poster, realist, sans-serif, sensible, small caps, urban, valuable, vintage


Figgins Sans

The first sans serif types were made in London in the early 19th century. They were severely modern, all caps and bold.

The Figgins foundry, inventor of the term sans serif, showed a fine example in its specimen of 1836. The extra bold weight of Figgins Sans is a close revival of the original, with the addition of a lower case which retains its partly geometric, partly grotesque quality. The family is rounded out with other weights and an italic, and extended into Cyrillic and Greek, all executed in what is assumed to be as authentic a manner as possible, given the hypothetical nature of the exercise.

Together with Scotch Modern, comprises The Modern Suite of matched fonts.


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‘Figgins Sans’ is a trademark of ShinnType.



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