FF Scala Sans
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| Typeface | FF Scala Sans |
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| Category | Sans-serif |
| Classifications | Humanist |
| Designer(s) | Martin Majoor |
| Foundry | FontShop International |
FF Scala Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed in by Dutch designer Martin Majoor in 1993 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It was designed as a companion to Majoor's earlier serif old style typeface FF Scala, designed in 1990.
Like Eric Gill's 1927–30 design Gill Sans and Hans Eduard Meier's typeface Syntax, both upper and lower case are structually modeled on serif old style faces. The lowercase roman a and g are two-story. FF Scala Sans italics are true italics, not sloped roman. The lowercase a, e, v and y are particularly calligraphic. FF Scala Sans is a very complete sans-serif in its inclusion of true small capitals, lining and non-lining (old style figures) and many ligatures. In 1993 additional a condensed width of the typeface was released. The typefaces are available through Font Shop International.
[edit] Bibliography
- Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
- FontFont Catalogue. Font Shop International: 2002.
- Middendorp, Jan. Dutch Type. 010 Publishers: 2004. ISBN 90-6540-460-1.
