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Golden Decades

by Dharma Type
Individual Styles from $19.99 USD
Complete family of 16 fonts: $159.99 USD
The Golden Decades Font Family was designed by Ryoichi Tsunekawa and published by Dharma Type. Golden Decades contains 16 styles and family package options.

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Golden Decades takes us back to the basics—a return to the timeless principles that shaped modern typography.

Over the past decade, the type design world has become increasingly chaotic, with markets flooded by both brilliance and noise. Amid this complexity, one golden path remains clear—a path that began with the Industrial Revolution, passed through the clarity of the Swiss Style, and continues today with the enduring appeal of the sans-serif.

We call the era spanning from the "Less is more" ethos of Swiss modernism to the current "Less, but better" philosophy the Golden Decades. It was in this period that type design fully embraced modernism, prioritizing clarity, function, and form.

Rooted in these ideals, Golden Decades is a new geometric, minimal sans-serif that revives this legacy with a contemporary twist. Cool, calm, and carefully refined, it brings sharpness and neutrality to modern design. Its rounded bowls and open counters introduce a sense of rhythm and approachability, while retaining a highly functional and versatile tone.

The family includes 8 weights with matching italics, making it ideal for everything from editorial layouts to digital interfaces and branding.

Golden Decades supports an extensive range of international Latin and basic Cyrillic languages, including Basic Latin, Western, Central, and South-Eastern European scripts. It also covers major encodings such as Mac Roman, Windows-1252, and Adobe Latin 1–3, ensuring compatibility across platforms and publishing environments.

For advanced typographic expression, the lowercase “a” includes a stylistic alternate, accessible via OpenType features.

Designers: Ryoichi Tsunekawa

Publisher: Dharma Type

Foundry: Dharma Type

Design Owner: Dharma Type

MyFonts debut: May 1, 2021

Golden Decades

About Dharma Type

Dharma Type is a type design project launched in 2005 by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, aimed at providing exclusive fonts for designers around the world.The design styles span a wide spectrum—from retro and classic to experimental and futuristic, from formal to informal—reflecting the project's mission to fill niche demands in the design landscape.To date, Dharma Type has released around 100 Latin typefaces, including the widely popular Bebas Neue, an open-source font. Many of these typefaces have been featured in publications and used across a variety of media—ranging from movie titles (such as La La Land) to brand logos and posters.

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