Tasse
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| Typeface | Tasse |
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| Category | Sans-serif |
| Designer(s) | Paul Renner Guy Jeffrey Nelson |
| Foundry | The Bauer Type Foundry Font Bureau |
Tasse is a revival of a condensed geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner in the period 1952–53 for The Bauer Type Foundry, and originally titled Futura Steile or Topic. In 1994 Guy Jeffrey Nelson designed the Tasse revival, expanding the typeface family to four weights and five widths. Nelson maintained Renner's alternative characters, adding additional alternate characters. The face is licensed by Font Bureau.
Futura Steile, and Tasse, shows influence of pen-written letters in contrast to the modular geometry of Futura. Renner's Futura Steile was originally designed in two weights, medium and bold, each with a Roman and italic. The face is unusual for a sans-serif in having a true italic rather than a sloped Roman. Lowercase italic a becomes single story, and the suggestion of calligraphic strokes are found in the italic characters e, h, K, k, m, n, and u. Renner's original character set offered alternative, more rounded, versions of uppercase roman characters A, E, M, and W.
Renner's earlier grotesk faces, Futura Schlagzeile (1932) and Renner Grotesk (1936) anticipate Futura Steile in their condensed, rectilinear structure.
[edit] References
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