neue Unikat Round

neue Unikat Round is based on neue Unikat — an interpretation of a typeface used by the Singapore Land Transit Authority for its directional signage. The typeface design is based on a rigid grid with little to no room for optical compensations or any kind of harmonisation whatsoever. This approach can be seen as epitomic to an engineer’s way of designing which offers paradoxically unorthodox solutions in a seemingly orthodox design grid. neue Unikat comes in five weights ranging from Thin to Bold. For the Italics the designer has the choice between a traditional slant to the right or an unconventional slant to the left. All weights and styles are equipped with arrows matching the individual weight’s stroke thickness.

neue Unikat Round is a uniwidth design which means that the individual characters are occupying the same amount of space across all weights and styles. This is pretty handy if one wants to avoid unintentional line breaks while switching weights.

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15 Styles
600 Glyphs each Style
Supports 90+ Latin-based Languages
Best for Wayfinding and Branding

And if I have not also shown that German is a harassing and infuriating study, my execution has been at fault, and not my

intent. I heard lately of worn and sorely tried American student who used to ﬂy to a certain German word for relief when

he could bear up under his aggravations no longer – the only word in the whole language whose sound was sweet and

precious to his ear and healing to his lacerated spirit. This was the word Damit. It was only the sound that helped

him, not the meaning; and so, at last, when he learned that the emphasis was not on the ﬁrst syllable, his only stay

and support, was gone, and he faded away and died. I think, that a description of any loud, stirring, tumultuous episode

must be tamer in German than in English. Out descriptive words of this character have such a deep, strong, resonant

sound, while their German equivalents do seem so thin and mild and energyless. Boom, burst, crash, roar, storm, bellow,

blow, thunder, explosion; howl, cry, shout, yell, groan; battle, hell. These are magniﬁcent words; they have a force

and magnitude of sound beﬁtting the things which they describe. But their German equivalents would be ever so

nice to sing the children to sleep with, or else my awe-inspiring ears were made for display and not for superior

usefulness in analyzing sounds. Would any man want to die in a battle which was called by so tame a term as a

Schlacht? Or would not a consumptive feel too much bundled up, who was about to go out, in a shirt-collar and a

seal-ring, into a storm which the birdsong word Gewitter was employed to describe? And observe the strongest

of the several German equivalents for explosion – Ausbruch. Our word Toothbrush is more powerful than that.

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neue Unikat Round Release

To further diversify the potential usage of neue Unikat we have created neue Unikat Round — a less austere and a more friendly appealing sibling. While all stroke endings were replaced by half-circles the inner corners retained their explicit sharpness.

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Try before you buy. neue offers Trial Fonts for each family with a reduced character set Download trial fonts. Want to customize one of our retail fonts? Sometimes a small modification of an already existing neue font does the job Learn more about Custom Fonts. Let’s have a Video Call in case you prefer it over writing emails Schedule a video call. Get in touch: neue, c/o Alexander Roth, Im Wellenbügel 14, 32108 Bad Salzuflen, Germany Find us on the map Email Instagram LinkedIn.