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Happy Times at the IKOB New Game Plus Edition v2.0
4 October 2019A smaller glyphset but more kerning and a Bold version for this New Game Plus Edition.
BackOut v2.018 July 2019BackOut 2.0 (code name: Abomey) was created by Ariel Martín Pérez during the very hot summer of 2019. The 2.0 version of BackOut is a faithful review of Frank's original with improved spacing and kerning, corrected contrast, new lowercase letters and extended language support and functionalities.
Format 1452 v2.016 July 2019Improved spacing and kerning, updated charset with diacritics and punctuation, added old style figures, added small caps.
Le Murmure v1.110 July 2019Alex Slobzheninov added a carefully designed Cyrillic set to the basic latin set already supported by the typeface. This addition was awarded one of the best Cyrillic typefaces of 2019 by the Modern Cyrillic Award.
In this version, Jérémy chose to make the numbers aligned by default. The other set of old style numerals can be accessed with the corresponding opentype feature.
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Grotesk
In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower. The problem of the cause of this effect has been featured in Scientific American magazine, with several theories given to explain the phenomenon but no definite conclusion. As a second meaning, the fact that nearby phase front distortions of an optical wave are more severe than remote distortions of the same amplitude is called shower-curtain effect.
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Versions history
This typeface is open-source. As such, it has been modified over the time and you can see here the different major versions it went by and the people working on these versions. You also can have access to the older versions of the files if you are a nostalgic person. Check all our design history on our fontlog page.
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v1.0
v2.0
Grotesk is a plain titling sans serif remaining simple enough to be usable in many contexts.
12 May 2010
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v1.0
An updated version with a bit of kerning and diacritics made for the Paris.fr website
15 May 2016
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- Medium
v2.0
Character Set
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