Berlingske Serif Stencil
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Berlingske Serif Stencil has a sophisticated and elegant look that
is combined with a stencil style without losing its connections to
the essence of the original serif. The hairlines are removed from the
glyphs so that only the wide stroke from the pen is left behind and
the optical perception gives the text a very refined and exclusive look.
The stencil style is very effective when used for headlines, labels and
displays where it provides an individual and unique expression.
The typeface Berlingske, originally designed by Playtype in 2010 for the Danish daily Berlingske – Denmark’s oldest newspaper, dates back 265 years. The design is carefully balanced to deliver significant modernization while paying homage to a unique heritage. After four years of further development with extended styles, language and weights, Berlingske today represents a wide ranged family that delivers freedom to play around and give any section or subject area a specific tonality without sacrificing consistency. The resulting font family, Berlingske, comes in more 229 weights and contains almost half a million different glyphs.
Berlingske is eminently readable and strikingly easy to navigate in while rich in identity and immediately recognizable. It is a distinct newspaper typography, where the difference in height between capitals and minuscule has to be significant in order for the text to be immediately decodable. The typeface embraces a wide range of section and subject area from news, fashion, art, politics, economic, society, culture, sport, lifestyle, spanning from newscasting, captures, headlines to lifestyle reporting.
Foundry | Playtype |
Designers | Jonas Hecksher |
More Info | playtype.com |