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Wasabi™

by Positype
Individual Styles from $20.00 USD
Complete family of 14 fonts: $189.00 USD
The Wasabi Font Family was designed by Neil Summerour and published by Positype. Wasabi contains 14 styles and family package options.

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Remastered in 2019. Wasabi is the re-imagining of my very first release, Iru. Like Iru, Wasabi was heavily influenced by the monument lettering style, Vermarco. The simple, geometric forms allowed for small lettering sizes to be sandblasted cleanly and has been a monument lettering workhorse for decades… the only issue centered around the lack of a lowercase or any other letters beyond the 26 uppercase glyphs and the numerals. Wasabi solves this with the same simple, efficient line reminiscent of the old Vermarco while bringing it into the 21st century. Visual and optical incongruities of the original uppercase were replaced with new interpretations for the capital letters, a new lowercase and small caps were​ produced and the original single weight alphabet was replaced with six new weights. Wasabi has several ‘lighter’ weights primarily because the thin lines and simple transitions produce very elegant relationships… and I wanted to make sure those relationships could be explored regardless of the scale of letter. Stylistic Alternates show up through the upper, lowercase and small cap glyphs that attempt to simplify these shapes even more when the opportunity arises. Wasabi is as much a utilitarian typeface as it is a headline face. This realization led to the decision to produce a companion Condensed version shortly after the initial regular weights were developed and tested; so, try them all!

Designers: Neil Summerour

Publisher: Positype

Foundry: Positype

Design Owner: Positype

MyFonts debut: Apr 24, 2019

Wasabi™ is a trademark of Positype.

About Positype

Positype was founded by Neil Summerour in 2000. A trained designer, lettering artist, and calligrapher, Summerour established Positype to accentuate the craft behind producing typefaces. The subtleties of mass, perfect imperfections, warmth, and uniqueness are foundational tenets to developing the foundry’s commercial offerings with the ultimate goal of producing useful and reliable fonts.These ideals are reflected in our diverse retail catalog, offering an array of fonts tailored for an extensive spectrum of applications, spanning from understated and practical to bold and ornamental. These fonts are available for licensing, adaptable for both physical and digital mediums.

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