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Kontext H

Kontext H

by Elster Fonts
Individual Styles from $20.00
Complete family of 9 fonts: $135.00
Kontext H Font Family was designed by Darius Samek and published by Elster Fonts. Kontext H contains 9 styles and family package options.

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About Kontext H Font Family


Imagine a font that is easier to read the smaller it is – or the further away the text is. There are already many line screen fonts, I wanted to take it to the extreme and use as few lines as possible, while keeping the grid of the fonts metrics. The result is a typeface that lives up to its name.


Each individual line makes no sense on its own; individual letters are only recognisable in the context of all associated lines, individual letters are most likely to be recognised in the context of whole words.


Attached to a building wall, text would be readable from a great distance and become increasingly difficult to decipher the closer you get to the building. Placed on the ground or on a large flat roof, text would only be readable from an aeroplane or - depending on the size - in Google Earth.


Kontext has old style figures, superscript numerals, case-sensitive questiondown and exclamdown and an alternative ampersand, 390 glyphs at all.


Use the same value for font size and line spacing to keep the lines in the grid, or change the line spacing in 10% steps.

Change the spacing in 100-unit or 25-percent increments increments to keep the grid.


The »H« in the font name stands for horizontal (lines).

The numbers in the font name refer to the brightness of the background and letters themselves, with the first number describing the background and the second the letters. Starting with »00« (white) to »200« (dark)


See also my Family Kontext Dot

Designers: Darius Samek

Publisher: Elster Fonts

Foundry: Elster Fonts

Design Owner: Elster Fonts

MyFonts debut: May 14, 2021

Kontext H

About Elster Fonts

Loving fonts and typefaces since childhood, I became a typesetter. Working today as a freelance graphic designer in Berlin/Germany with the focus on typography. Started creating basic fonts in the nineties with Fontographer, Love the possibilities of adding OpenType-features to my fonts and making them as useful as possible. Elster is the German word for Magpie.

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