Specimen Poster
Designed by our in-house designer Alexander Roth the two sided poster offers a complete overview of the family’s styles on one side and a piece of artwork on the other.
The overview includes: Big sample word, a character set extract (both are identical throughout all styles, so you can compare them between each other), an extract of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel as sample copy in 12 and 14pt, plus an overview of the symbols that are included in
FF Franziska (line thickness of the symbols correspond to the weight of the style).
As one of the most characteristic letters in any typeface, especially in
FF Franziska, ‘g’ was the perfect choice of letter to act as the inspiration for the poster artwork.
We will be offering a few lucky font fans the chance to get their hands on one of these in our next FontFont Newsletter. If you haven’t subscribed to it yet you can do so via this link!
The colors correspond to the colors of the g rendered on a screen in 10pt.
About FF Franziska
Started as a master thesis at Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel (Germany) under the guidance of Albert-Jan Pool and Prof. André Heers in 2012, FF Franziska is a robust serif type family for setting body copy as well as headlines using Hairline and Black. The typeface has been conceived as a hybrid of a serif and slab serif which becomes evident when comparing the weights from Hairline to Black. It has a generous
x-height and short descenders. The italics have a rather slight angle of slope and playful shapes derived from handwriting. A range of icons including various arrows and signs like thumb up and down complement the usual figure sets, small caps and stylistic alternates.
Check out Jakob Runge’s detailed insights into the making-of
