Asgard Wide font

Asgard Wide

Font

Asgard Wide

Author

Zetafonts

Fonts

24

Added

Jan 2, 2022

Description

Author's note

The font here is for PERSONAL/NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY!

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Francesco Canovaro designed Asgard as a way to mix his passion for the raw energy of extra bold sans serif typography with the expressivity of high contrast and calligraphy-inspired letterforms. He built the typeface around a strong geometric sans skeleton to make the letters feel solid and powerful, using wood-type vernacular solutions to solve density through high-contrast details. The typeface name was chosen as an homage to the mythical homeland of the Norse Gods, evoking a land of fierce warriors, power, and strength, as well as divine, delicate beauty.

The original design was extended with the help of Andrea Tartarelli and Mario de Libero, expanding the number of weights and widths to create a "workhorse typeface" approach, and adding a slanted axis to experiment with italics. The result is a super-family of 9 styles in 8 weights, for a total of 72 fonts, each with an extended set of 968 glyphs covering over 200 languages using Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts. The three variation axes (width, weight, slant) are also accessible in a variable font version included with the whole family.

This gives designers a full range of options for typesetting, with the Normal and Fit widths providing basic display and text-sized alternatives, and the Wide width adding more display and titling options. The inclusion of backslant italic styles gives Asgard an extra chance to add its voice to the typographic palette. To complement this, all Asgard fonts have been given a full set of OpenType features, including standard and discretionary ligatures, stylistic sets, positional numerals, and case-sensitive forms.

Dynamic and expressive, Asgard is a super-family that manages to look brutal and refined at the same time, quoting the vernacular typographic practices of letterpress print while expressing the contemporary zeitgeist.