Katarine Std Light
Katarine Std Light	$75.00
Katarine Std Light Italic
Katarine Std Light Italic	$75.00
Katarine Std
Katarine Std	$75.00
Katarine Std Italic
Katarine Std Italic	$75.00
Katarine Std Medium
Katarine Std Medium	$75.00
Katarine Std Medium Italic
Katarine Std Medium Italic	$75.00
Katarine Std Semi Bold
Katarine Std SemiBold	$75.00
Katarine Std Semi Bold Italic
Katarine Std SemiBold Italic	$75.00
Katarine Std Bold
Katarine Std Bold	$75.00
Katarine Std Bold Italic
Katarine Std Bold Italic	$75.00
Katarine Experts
Katarine Experts	$75.00
Katarine Experts Bold
Katarine Experts-Bold	$75.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: December 6th, 2004 (Updated: Nov 8th, 07)
Designed by: Tomas Brousil
Designed when: 2002-7
Contained in Category: Sans Serif
Design owned by: Suitcase Type Foundry
MyFonts Keywords: corporate, geometric, headline, headlines, magazine, news, poster, sansserif [suggest]

Katarine

From today’s point of view Katarine has a rather unusual origin.

Initially an all-caps display face, what was to become the Medium weight of the family was augmented with a lower case, then the character set was completed by adding all the missing glyphs. The next step was the creation of the Light and the Bold weights with matching Italics. This working method compromised the relationships between the characters across the different weights After some consideration the decision was made to start over and draw the complete family from scratch. This time the “conventional” process was followed — first the Light and Bold weights were designed. Those extremes were used to interpolate the Regular, Medium and Semibold weights. When compared to the original, the glyphs of the new fonts are slightly wider.

The construction of the letters is sturdy, with an x-height that varies from the heaviest to the lightest weights. The relationship of the stem weight between the horizontal and vertical strokes is carefully balanced. Characters are open and firm; the italics have room to breathe. The original fonts included two sets of small caps — Small Caps and Petite Caps. However neither set were suited for emphasis, with the Small Caps being too tall and the Petite Caps too short. We decided to replace them both with one set of traditional small caps, slightly taller than the x-height, perfectly suited for emphasis in text usage.

The original version of Katarine was partly incorporated into the new OpenType versions. Thus most of the original arrows, frames and boxes can be found in the new Katarine. Each individual weight now contains 830 glyphs, nine sets of numerals, small caps, numerous ligatures and fractions. An additional font named Numbers contains numerals in circles and squares, and is now augmented with accented caps and a number of terminal alternatives, which can easily be accessed through stylistic sets. We also added two extra variants, Experts Regular and Experts Black (in inverted form).

Katarine Std preserves the solid construction and excellent legibility of the original family, but has now become a fully featured OpenType typeface. Katarine is suited for a broad range of applications, from simple layouts to intricate corporate systems. It is the typeface of choice where the cold, austere character of modern sans serifs are inappropriate, yet simple shapes and good legibility are required.

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