Berlingske Typewriter
18 styles
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Berlingske Typewriter has converted the essentially elegant and
exclusive touch into a style that mimics the look of a typewriter while
still living up to the demands of modern use. It is, in contrast to a typical
typewriter, not monospaced but proportionally spaced, so that the text
appears with identical spacing between letters, thereby maintaining
a balanced appearance. It is ideally suited for body text and headlines
where it simultaneously expresses a classic and modern style.
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 |