Wallberg (serif) Typface Specimen

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Wallberg by Anton Ropers


Font anatomy of the source font

e New The open counter and aperature is relatively narrow.

Ascender Cap x-height

Baseline

Balanced stress

Descender

Gotham medium is a geometric high contrast sans-serif typeface designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones with Jesse Ragan and released from 2000. Gotham's letterforms were inspired by examples of architectural signage of the mid-twentieth century. Gotham has a relatively broad design with a reasonably high x-height, wide apertures, and balanced stress.


y york

Short horizontally cut descender, without overshoot

Short descender with overshoot for optical correction

r y

High x-height

Vertical terminal Horizontal terminal

Diagonal terminal

Gotham Medium


Uppercase Letters

A

BCD EFG HIJKL MNOPQ RSTUV WXY Z


Lowercase Letters

a

bcde fghi jklmn opqrs tuvwx yz


Numerals

1722 m o 47 39‘ 59‘ o N, 11 47‘ 45‘ O 1:600 800km


Uppercase Diacratics, Letters punctuation, signs, symbols

.,:;!?‘„'“< >@_§™ &#©%*+~ = / \ () {} [] € ùúü àáä èé òóö


140 0

m

4 1 : 400


Wallberg 1722 m

400m

m 0 70 m 0 55


K K Evolution

Tracing the skeleton of the source font; Gotham

Applying brushes on letters

Dawing serifs and fitting to letter shape


Brushes

ABCDEFGH IJKLMNOP QRSTUVWX YZ abcdefghi jklmnopqr stuvwxyz

Angle: 49 Roundness: 30% Size: 12pt

Angle: 53 Roundness: 35% Size: 12pt

? ; : “ „_ < > < > ,.@_&-§×~ ÷=\/

Brush Settings for all special characters Angle: -149 Roundness: 30% Size: 12 pt

'!"'''

Angle: 0 Roundness: 30% Size: 12 pt

©™*

Angle: -28 Roundness: 31% Size: 10 pt


Font Sizes in use

Die Bunker des Alpenwalls im Vinschgau DER ALPENWALL: HISTORISCHE BUNKERANLAGEN IM OBEREN VINSCHGAU Die historische Grenzbefestigung am Reschenpass, der sogenannte Alpenwall, ist ein beliebtes Ausflugsziel für Geschichtsinteressierte und mutet beim Wandern wie ein bizarres Kunstwerk an. Besonders sehenswert sind der Bunker Etschquelle/Bunker Nr. 20 und die Panzersperre Plamort, die in einem als Naturdenkmal ausgewiesenen Hochmoor über der Ortschaft Reschen liegt. Sehenswert sind auch die tief in die Erde führenden Bunker im Obervinschgau. Die monumentalen Abwehranlagen können als architektonischen Relikte der Zwischenkriegszeit in geführten Wanderungen besichtigt werden.

Geschichte Zum Schutz vor einer Invasion Hitlers wurde Ende der 1930er-Jahre entlang der Reschengrenze eine umfangreiche Verteidigungslinie aus Panzersperren und Bunkeranlagen angelegt. Die deutsche Expansionspolitik nach Süden brachte Italien und Deutschland in direkten Kontakt. So erteilte der Duce im November 1939 den Befehl, mit ausgedehnten Befestigungsarbeiten an der Nordgrenze zu beginnen. Ab Ende Januar 1940 gab es in Südtirol ein erstes Verteidigungssystem mit 66 Anlagen. Im Oktober 1942 wurden die Bauarbeiten nach wiederholtem Protest des Deutschen Reiches eingestellt.

24pt/25pt

13pt/13pt

10pt/12pt

13pt/16pt

10pt/12pt


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Typographic scale

L

%


Riesling Eiswein Silvaner

72pt

48pt

30pt

Vermentino

18pt

Lugana

10pt

Barbera

8pt

Barolo

6pt


Font anatomy

Bracketed serifs that proportionally lead the text

Ascender line Cap x-height

Baseline

Glyphed head serifs

Wall

Descender line

Sturdy and balance bracketed serif

Wallberg is a humanist serif typeface based on architectural signage of the mid-twentieth century Gotham skeleton. Wallberg is a more flowing naturalist take on the classic type, playing with asymmetrical serifs that lead the text. Wallberg has a medium contrast and a large aperature and is notas broad as gotham but aims to be a contemporary script combining natural architecture with man made. It has been made for long texts and specifically embodies the context of the outdoor and human connection.


Long head to optically correct and lead text to the right

Bracketed ear

lberg Diagonal 40 degree stress

Sturdy and balanced bracketed serif

Short descender with overshoot for optical correction

Angled crossbar to open counter (optical-correction)


Font characteristics

First Serif Group

P k Foot rests on base without overshoot

Second Serif Group

Foot rests on base without overshoot

Bracketed backwards facing serif EFPRBKku

Hairline Stress at the end of the crossbar OQCGDJPRBUnmhrue cbdpqag

Bracketed foot serif with forward leading edge to increase dynamisism of type AYHMFRph1

Bracketed forward/backward leading head serif IJHLBUbdq unbalanced forward leading arm serif with equal curving k

Unbalanced forward leading serif Kk


Third Serif Group

n

Bracketed backwards facing serif (ear) XMnmxg™

Stem serif reaches x-height and shoulder overshoots

Hairline Stress at the shoulder nmhr

Bracketed foot serif with forward leading NSnms

Foot rests on base without overshoot

C Fourth Serif Group

Spur and bracketed serif Cc

overshoot

overshoot

C

Open counter to let the typface flow to next letter Cec Curved finial with downwards curve to open counter Cec


Font characteristics

Fifth Serif Group

Z Foot rests on base without overshoot

V Sixth Serif Group

Foot rests on base without overshoot

Beak ZTEza123457

Diagonal Hairline MXVYxvw2347

Horizontal terminal with 45 degree point Z

Bracketed forward and backwards facing unbalanced serifs VWYXvwyx

Unbalance hairline crotch VWYKvwyk

Blunt vertex VWvw


i

Seventh Serif Group Stem serif reaches x-height and shoulder overshoots

Round tittle typical for serif typefaces XMnmxg™

glyphed serif bdpqiljt

Balanced foot serif Tilf

Foot rests on base without overshoot

Pichlhütte Erichütte

45min 2h


Font relations

OQCEDBDP

oecbdq NMHRU nmhru ILJFT iljft VWXYZ vwxyz


Kk Aa Ss

Gg


7 s Ü

R

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#

L

1

90 2& 83



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Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bolzano Bozen WUP 2020/21 Typeface designed by Anton Ropers

Prof. Antonino Benincasa Andreas Trenker Emilio Grazzi Font created with Illustrator & Fontself


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