Wallberg sans Typeface Specimen

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K e e e e e e e ee e ee e e e ee e ee e e Wallberg Sans



Wallberg Sans by Anton Ropers


Font anatomy of 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

ABCD EFGH IJKLM NOPQ RSTUV WXYZ


Lowercase Letters

abcde fghijk lmnop qrstu vwxyz


Numerals

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Diacratics, punctuation, signs, symbols Uppercase Letters

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e e

Evolution

Tracing the skeleton of the source font; Gotham

Applying brushes on letters

Adding red shapes to later use shape builder tool to make compound path


Brushes

ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVW iljtf + all special characters bdpq

Angle: 41 Roundness: 43% Size: 12pt

For curvatures and hairlines Angle: 19 Roundness: 70% Size: 10pt

nmhruoc asg

Angle: 24 Roundness: 30% Size: 12pt

e

e crossbar Angle: 23 Roundness: 30% Size: 16pt

vwy

Angle: 0 Roundness: 89% Size: 8pt

xzk3

Diagonal Brushes Angle: 19 Roundness: 31% Size: 11pt

12456789

Angle: 13 Roundness: 44% Size: 12pt


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

24pt/25pt

13pt/13pt

10pt/12pt

13pt/16pt

Zum Schutz vor einer Invasion Hitlers wurde Ende der 1930er-Jahre 10pt/12pt 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.


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Typographic scale


Wolf Amsel Hirsch Gämse Bär

100 pt

90 pt

72pt

48pt

30pt

Steinbock

18pt

Steinadler

10pt

Luchs

8pt

Flora

6pt


Font anatomy

Horizontal terminals

l Wallber Apex with homogized right leading

Ascender line Cap x-height

Baseline Descender line

Large aperature with small counter

Heterogenous overshoots with left leaning weight on vertices of v and w

Wallberg sans is a medium contrast typeface based on architectural signage of the mid-twentieth century Gotham skeleton. Wallberg sans is a more flowing naturalist take on the classic type, playing with brushed terminals to lead the text to the right. Wallberg has a large aperature and is not as broad as gotham but aims to be a contemporary script combining natural architecture with man made. It has been made for long texts moreover than its counterpart “Wallberg“.

Diagonal 24 degree stress


Crossbars all have diagonal convex stress

Form with hook or spine all have natural swish in terminal ending

E S rg Sans e Forwarding leading shoulder

Hairline Joint

Diagonal 19 degree stress

Angled crossbar to open counter (optical-correction)


Font characteristics

G 8

30 degree finial with convex terminal 41 degree terminal on crossbar

all letters

Hairline joint/finial without spur

Cc

Overshoot (optical correction)

Overshoot (optical correction)

Flat 70% round aperature

963e

Hairline


A Z

Overshoot (optical correction)

30 degree apex with convex reight leading terminal

MNvw Hairline

rnmfpd Open Counter

Uuace

Feet grounding letter on baseline

no overshoot = x-height

Feet grounding letter on baseline

Rounded horizontal terminal

Diagonal Hairline

xyzk27

41 degree terminal on crossbar

all letters


Pichlhütte Erichütte

Hochgrat Wallberg


45min 2h

3h 5.5h


Font relations

OQCEDBDP

oecbdq NMHRU nmhru ILJFT iljft VWXYZ vwxyz


Kk Aa Ss

Gg


Monte Tondo topography, 1998

550m +

420m

400m

360m 220m

1 : 250

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ABCDEFG HIJKLMNO PQRSTUV WXYZabc defghijkl mnopqrst uvwxyz 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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