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Empirical™ from Type Associates Empirical™ is a Type Associates font family with 12 styles priced from $32.50. Click a Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information for a particular group of fonts, or see purchase options for the entire family. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: October 20th, 2009
Designed by: Russell Bean
Designed when: 2009
Design owned by: Type Associates
MyFonts Keywords: DIN, display, grotesque, joined, ligatures, linked, modular, monoline, sans, sans serif, some-serifs, technical, text, uniform, versatile
Empirical Five
When I first approached this design back in 2003 I wrote myself a design brief that called for a simple sans serif “avec serifs” (with serifs).
Its emphasis needed to be on text usage but to be at home in display sizes. A range of weights with a controlled step from one weight to the next, uniform character sets, spacing and kerning throughout the range. Attention to openness of counter spaces would be paramount to work in text sizes. Matching italics should be true italics not merely slanted - with a cursive feel.
During extensive testing I decided to include a suite of ligatures to eliminate the hairline gaps that occur between slab serifs at display sizes. The user needs only to activate “standard ligatures” which is on by default in most apps.
Six years in the making, I think it was worth the wait.
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