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Fedra Sans

 from Typotheque

Fedra Sans is a Typotheque font family with 35 styles priced from $70.00.

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Fedra Sans
195684; ; English
195684; ; Western Europe


Fedra Sans LightPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Light Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$70.00

Fedra Sans Light BundlePurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Light TF Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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  Fedra Sans-Light SCItalic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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  Fedra Sans-Light Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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  Fedra Sans-Light Italic Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$215.00 (including 3 other fonts)

Fedra Sans Light SCPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Light SC Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Fedra Sans Light ItalicPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Light Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$70.00

Fedra Sans BookPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Book Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$70.00

Fedra Sans Book BundlePurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Book TF Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Book SCItalic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Book Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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  Fedra Sans-Book Italic Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$215.00 (including 3 other fonts)

Fedra Sans Book SCPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Book SC Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Fedra Sans Book ItalicPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Book Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Fedra Sans NormalPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Normal Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Fedra Sans Normal BundlePurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Normal TF Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Normal SCItalic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Normal Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Normal Italic Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$215.00 (including 3 other fonts)

Fedra Sans Normal SCPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Normal SC Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Fedra Sans Normal ItalicPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Normal Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Fedra Sans MediumPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Medium Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$70.00

Fedra Sans Medium BundlePurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Medium TF Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Medium SCItalic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Medium Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Medium Italic Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$215.00 (including 3 other fonts)

Fedra Sans Medium SCPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Medium SC Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Fedra Sans Medium ItalicPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Medium Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Fedra Sans BoldPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Bold Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$70.00

Fedra Sans Bold BundlePurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Bold TF Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Bold SCItalic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Bold Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
  Fedra Sans-Bold Italic Expert Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$215.00 (including 3 other fonts)

Fedra Sans Bold SCPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Bold SC Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Fedra Sans Bold ItalicPurchase Options
  Fedra Sans-Bold Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$70.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 10th, 2003 (Updated: Aug 18th, 03)
Designed by: Peter Bilak
Designed when: 2001
Contained in Categories: Legible, Sans Serif
Design owned by: Typotheque
MyFonts Keywords: corporate, humanist, legible, lowres, oldstylenumerals, plain, sansserif, newsheadline, news, newstext [suggest]


Fedra Sans

Fedra Sans was originally commissioned by Paris-based Ruedi Baur Integral Design and developed as a corporate font for Bayerische Rück, a German insurance company, as part of their new visual identity. According to the commissioner, the objective was to 'de-protestantize Univers', the typeface which Bayerische Rück had been using since Otl Aicher designed their first visual identity in the 1970s. The typeface reflects the original brief: it humanises the communicated message and adds simple, informal elegance. The most important criterion was to create a typeface which works equally well on paper and on the computer screen, and is consistent across all computer platforms.

After first versions of the typeface were completed and digitised, the project was cancelled as Bayerische Rück was acquired by another even larger multinational corporation. This put an early end to the story of the custom font.

Since a lot of work had been done already, I decided to complete the typeface,adding extra weights and expert fonts. Shortly before the planned release date of the typeface, my studio was broken into, and my computers and back-up system containing all the font data were stolen. What initially seemed like the ultimate designer’s disaster was actually beneficial for Fedra. The incident delayed its release, allowing me to re-examine the early design decisions, made under the assumption that the font would be exclusive to the company and never publicly available. The new version is more versatile, offering a wider range of fonts, a number of special typographic features. The spacing of the font was altered, as well as the slope of the italics. Many characters were redrawn creating a more flexible type family.

Fedra Sans exists now also in the Central European, Baltic, Turkish encodings and soon in Cyrillic, and Greek.


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