Helios
HELIOS
Anastasia Carboni
Font anatomy of the source font:
Letters take advantage of much negative space
Heliop Small aperture
Helvetica LT Std
Lowercase letters have a vertical-focused proportion, rather than horizzontal
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Ascenders x height
Baseline Descenders
The negative space inside the lowercase a seems like a tear
Designed by: Max Miedinger, 1957
UPPERCASE
A F K P U
B G L Q V
C H M R W Z
D I N S X
E J O T Y
lowercase
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c h m r w z
d i n s x
e j o t y
Numerals
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Glyphs
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Evolution
Skeleton
Brushes
Serifs application
Refined character
Brushes
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Mini Jack
Angle: 0° Roundness: 30% Size: 8pt
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Sky Vodka Angle: 25° Roundness: 28% Size: 6,2pt
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Gin MARE Angle: 10° Roundness: 35% Size: 5,5pt
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Angle: 0° Roundness: 50% Size: 6,5pt
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Ardbeg Angle: 10° Roundness: 28% Size: 5pt
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Martini Dry Angle: 32° Roundness: 32% Size: 7pt
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Bacardi Angle: 55° Roundness: 35% Size: 6,5pt
Tequila Angle: 5° Roundness: 35% Size: 7pt
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Amaro del Capo
Fuoco dell'Etna
Angle: 0° Roundness: 40% Size: 7pt
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Disaronno Angle: 0° Roundness: 30% Size: 7,5pt
Ss
Angle: 0° Roundness: 40% Size: 5,8pt
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Jagermeister Angle: 0° Roundness: 30% Size: 9pt
DPRB
Font sizes in use 26pt
12/13pt
10,5/13pt
7/10pt
THE SUN - Our light The Sun is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy mainly as visible light and infrared radiation. The English word sun developed from Old English sunne. Cognates appear in other Germanic languages, including West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Low German Sünn, Standard German Sonne, Bavarian Sunna, Old Norse sunna and Gothic sunnō. All these words stem from Proto-Germanic *sunnōn. This is ultimately related to the word for „sun“ in other branches of the Indo-European language family, though in most cases a nominative stem with an l is found, rather than the genitive stem in, as for example in Latin sōl, Greek ἥλιος hēlios, Welsh haul and Russian солнце solntse (pronounced sontse), as well as (with *l > r) Sanskrit svár and Persian xvar. Indeed, the l-stem survived in Proto-Germanic as well, as *sōwelan, which gave rise to Gothic sauil (alongside sunnō) and Old Norse prosaic sól (alongside poetic sunna), and through it the words for „sun“ in the modern Scandinavian languages: Swedish and Danish solen, Icelandic sólin, etc.. In English, the Greek and Latin words occur in poetry as personifications of the Sun, Helios and Sol, while in science fiction „Sol“ may be used as a name for the Sun to distinguish it from other stars. The term „sol“ with a lower-case ‚s‘ is used by planetary astronomers for the duration of a solar day on another planet such as Mars.
The enormous effect of the Sun on Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times. The Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity. The synodic rotation of Earth and its orbit around the Sun are the basis of solar calendars, one of which is the Gregorian calendar, the predominant calendar in use today.
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Typographic scale 6pt
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Font Anatomy:
The dott has a circular shape
Heliop Small aperture
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Slight brush modulation for ondulated strokes
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Baseline Descenders
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Font characteristics
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Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bolzano - Bozen WUP 2020/21 Typeface designed by Anastasia Carboni Prof. Antonino Benincasa Andreas Trenker Emilio Grazzi Font created with Illustrator & Fontself