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Stamen

Stamen™

by Wordshape
Individual Styles from $20.00
Complete family of 12 fonts: $100.00
Stamen Font Family was designed by Ian Lynam and published by Wordshape. Stamen contains 12 styles and family package options.

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About Stamen Font Family


Stamen is the answer to a big question: What would happen if one tried to create a typeface that was ‘out of time’? If a type designer was to turn off the internet and put away the type specimens and just try to explore limbic, phantom history, what might that look like? No slavish explorations of the past. No gropings toward the future. No exhaustive core sample of the contemporary. Instead, using what one remembers of history and our collective vision of the future (usually a future imagined from the past) and channeling that into something that is, hopefully, new… The Bentons meet Frutiger for a Manhattan on a space station while Matthew Carter sways to the sweet sounds of the chorale that occasionally played through the halls of Stephenson Blake. This smear of implicit history expressed without explicit reference—this is Stamen: a family of 12 typefaces with a ton of alternate characters. The bold weight was designed for the LP “I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler” ( http://ittfwbc.com/ ) by the band YACHT in response to their request for a typeface that was ‘lost in time’, and refers to neither strict historical models nor purely futuristic forms. I built a small family out from there. It works well in text, but just as well for display setting. I think you’ll enjoy using it.

Designers: Ian Lynam

Publisher: Wordshape

Foundry: Wordshape

Design Owner: Wordshape

MyFonts debut: Apr 5, 2016

Stamen™ is a trademark of Wordshape.

About Wordshape

Wordshape is a boutique type foundry and publisher operating in Tokyo. In addition to our library of retail fonts, we also design custom fonts for clients of all sizes. From the modification of existing fonts to the design of a complete family from scratch, we design typefaces to fit most needs. Select clients include Adidas, Bandcamp, Google, Hofstra University, Mozilla, MTV, NASA, Nike, Onitsuka Tiger, Pivotal, Plaid, and Tokyo University.

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