Even a casual glance reveals it as clearly Unger and clearly usable – something that typeface designers have always aspired to, but few master as well as Unger. By doing so, Unger re-appropriated his earlier design in a modern manifestation of le goût hollandois of which Unger is a leading contemporary voice.Ĭapitolium News manages to be very pragmatic while still speaking a beautiful design language full of flavor. Where Capitolium was inspired by ancient Roman inscriptions and the penmanship of Giovanni Francesco Cresci, Capitoloum News is an adaptation for newsprint featuring a larger x-height. The design was a winning entry in the 2011 ATypI letter.2 competition, honoring the best type design of the past decade. The updated fonts expand the character set to cover Central European languages and implemented a range of OpenType features.
So why is Capitolium, a design from 1998, on this year’s list? Well, Gerard Unger expanded his design in 2006 with cuts suited for newspapers, and in 2011 it was updated and released as Capitolium News 2 by Type Together, giving it a wider retail audience for the first time.
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