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Arsen is a new French Elzevir designed by Joachim Vu, that brings a distinctive touch to your projects while ensuring excellent readability, thanks to its four optical sizes. Each subfamily offers seven styles in Roman and italics, featuring 990 glyphs.
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➽ Arsen is available in four optical sizes: Affiche, Display, Normal, Text.
From €55 for Desktop or Web usage. Epub and App versions also available.
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➽ Download the Try-out versions
➽ Download the pdf specimens
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The influences of Arsen
Arsen, influenced by typefaces from the Parisian foundry Turlot published around 1895, is neither a Didot, nor a genre of Garamond, nor Caslon, nor Baskerville, nor even Fournier. This is why it will bring this unique style to your publication, design, that you are looking for.
Arsen is the result of a research of several years by Joachim Vu as part of his work as a designer within the Typofonderie team. The principles of Arsen design are based on a few bodies presented as the Elzevir No3 by the Turlot Foundry in 1895. Even if certain typeface characteristics of this Elzevir No3 are found in Arsen, it is not a strict revival, rather the result of a major influence of this Elzevir No3, which will have made it possible to understand one of the aspects of the Elzevirien style. Everything is explained on the detail page of Arsen…
➽ Read about Arsen
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As you can see, Arsen is quite unique in its style, both historic and contemporary. Arsen will bring this special touch to your publication, design, that you are looking for.
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Compact & short serifs
Arsen has an original particularity: it has been designed so that glyphs such as A, V, R (etc) that feature long external serifs, are contextually reduced according to the letters before and after in order to optimize word spacing. Some vertical serifs are also contextually shortened when positioned with lowercase.
Stylistic set 4: Compact serifs capitales
Stylistic set 5: Compact serifs minuscules
Stylistic set 6: Short serifs capitals
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The set of glyphs includes 990 by font, in accordance with the Typofonderie typefaces. Vignettes are available according to the four optical sizes and weights, in addition you will find dingbats, numbers in circles, arrows, etc.
➽ Discover the full glyph set
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Arsen is built around four optical sizes, two intended for large display, Arsen Affiche and Arsen Display, then Arsen Normal adapted to all uses and Arsen Text dedicated to small sizes. The relatively narrow capitals follow uniform proportions. In the Text version, romans, and even more so the italics are different from other optical sizes, drawn more open, with endings closer to the horizontals.
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Available in 4 variants, minuscule, capital, tabular and non-tabular, the numerals three and five align like some Didot. Some other numerals are in a specific design depending on the version.
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For the launches of our typefaces, we only test fonts in different sizes, different OS, but we explore the visual capabilities of the typeface by using up diverted existing uses.
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Austerlitz
Austerlitz is the 4th exploration of the world of Didots and their variants, following Ambroise (2001-16), Mencken Head (2004-16), AW Conqueror Didot (2010-18) published by Typofonderie. Austerlitz is an exception though, in that it is not a pure Didot, it is a versatile typeface in 7 weights with italics, in 4 optical sizes for a total of 56 fonts.
➽ 56 fonts in 4 optical sizes starting at €55.
➽ Visite the minisite.
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Arbale
Arbale is a geometric sans serif available in three tones: Modern, Universal and Vernacular. Started in 2013, it’s an hybrid typeface designed by Jean François Porchez that brings together various modernist influences and vernacular lettering of geometric inspiration from the 20th century.
➽ 18 fonts starting at €55.
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