Bronze Graphic · 2024
Bake Sans Type Design and Specimen
by Paul Robb
- Bronze A' Design Award 2024 in Graphic
- CLIENT: S6 Foundry
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 22,706
- Verification code 2979916C41 · Verify this award
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About Bake Sans Type Design and Specimen
Bake Sans is a geometric sans serif typeface created for branding and communication projects. The letterforms draw on the International Style and on the clarity of Swiss type design, combined with experimental shapes and curves. The family was produced with type design software and gives a consistent visual character across different applications. A companion specimen book presents the typeface. The specimen measures 210 by 290 millimetres and was printed in a limited run in four colours using digital offset printing.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Bake Sans Type Design and Specimen is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Bake Sans Type Design and Specimen is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Bake Sans Type Design and Specimen splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Bake Sans is a contemporary typeface that exudes style and personality. Inspired by the impartiality of Swiss-type design, this font is a meticulous fusion of contemporary shapes and curves. Crafted with modern and distinctive shapes, curves, and idiosyncrasies, this font offers the perfect visual consistency for branding and communication projects through the experiment forms.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The specimen dimensions are 210 x 290 mm
- Tags
- Type design, Typeface, Specimen
- Production Technology
- Glyphs was used to create the Font family. The Type specimen book was printed as a limited run in offset digital, 4 colors.
- Design Challenge
- The major challenge was to create a modern San serif based on the traditional forming and adapt them to create a new visual language.
- Research
- Our research began with the origins of the International Style and Swiss type design, creating forms that could be expanded and adapted into new forms.
- Inspiration
- Inspiration was from the International Style, and the minimalism and clarity of Swiss-type design inspired the letterforms. Foremost was the concept of a geometric sans serif typeface but with an experimental feel.
- Project Duration
- The project was started in June 2023 and finished in September 2023
- Operation Flow
- The typeface is available commerically
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Paul Henry Robb & Moira Bartoloni, 2023
- Image Credits
- Copyrights belong to Paul Henry Robb & Moira Bartoloni, 2023
