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Trench Rounded is part of the Trench superfamily, which also includes Trench Slab, and a special series of fonts designed to print text is very small point sizes – Trench Sans. All of the Trench fonts include large, prominent ink-traps. Trench Rounded was inspired by a classic piece of graphic design history: Wim Crouwel’s exhibition poster for the sculptor Claes Oldenburg. Those letterforms – even though they don’t bear formal resemblance to Trench Round – featured huge, rounded, cushion-like letterforms with distinctive ink-traps; they gave the letters enough depth to echo the softness in Oldenburg’s sculpture. There are a number of alternates included in each Trench Rounded font for display settings: “M”, “N”, “W”, and “w” with smaller ink-traps and a double storied "g" and serif-less "I".