Commercial Type, Christian Schwartz, Paul Barnes, Ilya Ruderman, Vincent Chan, Berton Hasebe, CSTM Fonts
What happens when you try to make a new sans serif by chopping the slabs off of an egyptian? That was the original inspiration behind this modern classic designed for the Guardian newspaper. Comprised of four interrelated families: an Egyptian for headlines; a Text Egyptian; a Sans for headlines in 4 widths; and a Text Sans, every possible typographic need of a daily paper is fulfilled. Serious news headlines, expressive features, readable text, tiny financial listings, infographics, and everything in between can be capably handled with ease.
Released in 2009, the collection still feels contemporary and has appeared not only on the pages of The Guardian, but also in a Metropolitan Museum Exhibition and on the stage of St.Gallen Theater.
Guardian was the first common project of the Commercial Type founders Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes, art directed by Mark Porter. Cyrillic for the Guardian Collection was drawn by Ilya Ruderman and Guardian Sans was designed with the help of Berton Hasebe and Vincent Chan.
While the very lightest and heaviest weights of Guardian Sans have quite a bit of personality, the rest of the family has been designed for respectable neutrality. Its unadorned forms make it a typographic chameleon, able to combine well with a wide range of typefaces.
Case sensitive forms, standard ligatures, proportional lining figures, proportional oldstyle figures, ordinals, fractions, denominator, numerator, subscript / inferiors, superscript / superiors, five stylistic sets
Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ingush, Italian, Kazakh, Kurdish (lat), Kyrghiz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian (cyr), Mongolian (lat), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spain, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyr), Uzbek (lat)