As an extension of Veronika Burian and Jose Scaglione’s Postea Latin, the Postea Hebrew font family is a take on geometric typefaces by Tom Grace, with consultancy by Meir Sadan. Postea Hebrew is infused with the right attributes for setting paragraphs and headings, and perfect for branding and text use. The classic curves and purposeful details keep its individuality intact while allowing it to fit an incredible range of design needs. Because of these qualities, Postea Hebrew makes normal reading in paragraphs a cinch and your branding memorable.
Postea Hebrew’s main goal was to match the Latin’s colour and rhythm for a unified look in multiscript typography. This required studying Postea’s existing Latin version, as well as Hebrew typefaces and lettering made with a similar look or during a similar time period. A second goal was to provide a style for modern Hebrew and Yiddish typography which combines geometric and handmade structures for a readable, familiar, and still novel family.
Compared to midcentury attributes of restraint and a sparse appearance, Postea’s deliberate play between character widths injects its personality with liveliness and distinction. Another nice surprise awaits: spacing for the Hairline weight is tighter for optimal use in large headings and titles, while the regular weights have the expected, slightly looser spacing for text.
Postea Hebrew is opinionated and has modern stylistic sets with softer, specially-designed alternate characters. The default characters ‘b’ and ‘u’ are gentle around the bowls, so Stylistic Set 03 replaces them with the typical, harder forms. SS02 includes ‘f, t, and y’, and is a more stoic interpretation of the default characters with several Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew alternates here. The single-bowled ‘a’ can be found in SS04. And wallpaper-worthy geometric symbols and ornaments are packed into SS01 and 09.
Postea Hebrew’s seven upright styles or one variable font are accompanied by an all-new family of icons in three weights, for which we developed a new, easy activation method. Simply bookend the desired icon name with colons (:arrowUp: :firstAid: :aid: :chargingStation:), making sure to capitalise each word after the first word, then select it and activate SS10. Icons include wayfinding, social interface, and sanitary precautions like face masks, thermometers, hand washing, and much more.
Postea Hebrew brings all this together nicely, invoking a balance between a constructed and human feel while benefitting from a century of geometric type design. The multiscript family is resilient in the number of ways it can be used, and its recognisable characters make it a prime selection for branding, signage, corporate typefaces, and magazines. Beginning with 100 years of lessons in geometric type, Postea Hebrew is the rational response for text — an adaptive take on geometric sans serifs.
About TypeTogether
Veronika Burian and José Scaglionemet and developed a respectful kinship while completing their Master’s degrees in type design at University of Reading, UK. Established in 2006, TypeTogether is an independent, cosmopolitan type foundry that creates text typography for intensive digital and print editorial use. We have grown into a core team living worldwide and invested in the daily work, networked with other type designers who intermittently cooperate on specific projects.
Through our unique, diverse, curated font platform, TypeTogether creates innovative and stylish solutions to the greatest problems in the professional typography market.
The advantage of being a small but highly specialized company is that we are able to work closely with our clients to accomplish their goals and to respond quickly to their requirements. To carry an organisation’s unique voice across all communications, TypeTogether creates custom type solutions for discerning clients worldwide. Distinct advantages in your market can be gained through logotype creation, commissioning a brand new typeface, modifying existing typefaces, or extending language support.
TypeTogether creates cross-platform OpenType fonts of recognised aesthetic and technical excellence and which perform well in continuous reading. Our internationally awarded catalogue — honoured for its high quality, usefulness, personality, and ability to grab attention — spans many languages and scripts and is diligently expanding each year.
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