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Simpliciter Sans

by Cercurius
Individual Styles from $19.95 USD
Complete family of 5 fonts: $74.80 USD
The Simpliciter Sans Font Family was designed by Lars Törnqvist and published by Cercurius. Simpliciter Sans contains 5 styles and family package options.

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Simpliciter Sans is a typeface based on the lettering used in the 20th century on technical drawings, either written by free hand or using templates. The lettering was made with a round pen, therefore all lines got rounded ends. All lines had the same thickness in uppercase, lowercase and small caps. The upright style was used on construction drawings and the italic style on machine drawings. The backslant style was used on maps for names of water bodies — seas, lakes, rivers etc. — and for water depth.

Simpliciter Sans is primarily intended for texts on drawings, diagrams, charts and maps, but it can also be used for signs and labels. It also works surprisingly well as a body type in smaller sizes.

Designers: Lars Törnqvist

Publisher: Cercurius

Foundry: Cercurius

Design Owner: Cercurius

MyFonts debut: May 8, 2013

Simpliciter Sans

About Cercurius

The Cercurius foundry issues fonts by the independent type designer Lars Törnqvist, who has been making fonts since the 1990's, mainly for scholarly and educational purposes. The foundry portfolio offers a mix of revivals of classical metal typefaces, digital versions of lettering and embroidery alphabets, and completely new designs. All fonts support most European latin-based languages.

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