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Eknaton

Eknaton™

by T4 Foundry
Individual Styles from $21.00 USD
Complete family of 5 fonts: $99.00 USD
Eknaton Font Family was designed by Bo Berndal and published by T4 Foundry. Eknaton contains 5 styles and family package options.

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About Eknaton Font Family


The powerful Eknaton comes with slanted slabserifs, a new way to add some spring to the old Egyptian slabs. Eknaton echoes the tradition that started with Napoleon's Egyptian campaign 1798, and the simultaneous looting of Egyptian art. The imports led to new ladies fashion in Europe, new architecture and new typefaces like Antique (Figgins, 1815) and Egyptian (Caslon, 1816). The Egyptian faces were also the origin of the famous Clarendon (1845) and Ionic No.5 (1925) as well as the rest of "the legibility types". In the 20th century the slabserifs became popular again with Bauhaus incarnations like Memphis (Wolf, 1929) and Beton (Jost, 1931). The Bauhaus movement, otherwise anti-serif, liked the architectural influence in Egyptian slabserifs. The Bo Berndal design of Eknaton puts some speed into the old Sphinx - the cat is back, in better form than ever! Bo Berndal, born 1924, has been designing typefaces for 56 years, for Monotype, Linotype and other foundries. Eknaton comes in five different widths, from Tight to Expanded, and is an OpenType typeface for both PC and Mac. Swedish type foundry T4 premiere new fonts every month. Eknaton is our eleventh introduction.

Designers: Bo Berndal

Publisher: T4 Foundry

Foundry: T4 Foundry

Design Owner: T4 Foundry

MyFonts debut: Jul 3, 2007

Eknaton™ is a trademark of T4 Typography AB.

About T4 Foundry

T4 provides Swedish typefaces to the world, offering a wide collection of original display and text type with the occasional twist. Although T4 is a young and modern foundry, the team behind the company has a long history of type design, well before the digital era. Bo Berndal and Torbjörn Olsson are two of T4's prominent type designers. T4 also works with clients that have special needs, and develops logotypes, design programs and in-house typefaces. The sister company A4 designs newspapers.

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