Span is a contemporary glyphic typeface. Its deep, sweeping serifs and sculptural forms that flaunt its engraved heritage. Bridging the contemporary and traditional, Span appears exuberant yet dignified. Designed primarily for luxurious headlines and titles, Span’s strong vertical stress is softened by elegant organic curves while its compact height accentuates the deep serifs.
Just the right amount of contrast with upright axis. Distinctive triangular (glyphic) terminals. Compact vertical proportions. Soft curves against rigid stems. Long legs, tails and elegant swashes for personalization.
The family offers five weights, each with three widths and italics. The condensed styles provide an invaluable advantage when designing within narrow spaces. Span’s italics strike a balance between true italics and oblique letterforms to create a change in rhythm while preserving its chiselled style.
A variety of additional features enhance Span's typographic capabilities including restrained swashes and flourishes are available in both roman and italic styles. Span also introduces an additional set of capitals for exceptional typographic control over uppercase settings. ‘Mid Caps’ sit midway between full-height capitals and lowercase letters and extend Span's title setting options to All Capitals, Capitals with Mid Caps and Capitals with Small Caps.
‘Mid Caps’ provide an extra option for title settings. Span’s Capitals can be combined with Mid Caps, Small Caps and Lowercase.
Five weights with accompanying italics.
Three width which are essential for designing within small spaces.
You might recognise these designs from another of my projects. The typeface evolved from the lettering originally drawn for this packaging.
Lots of OpenType Features to allow customised settings. This include restrained swashes on capitals, log legs, tails and other useful alternates.
Choose Span and take full control over your title settings and produce classic typography with statuesque poise.
Overview:
• 30 styles comprised of 5 weights, 3 widths and accompanying italics.
• Additional features include alternate characters, swashes, Small Caps and Mid Caps.
• 987 glyphs per style
• See the full specimen.
• Span Type Family is available at Adobe Fonts and MyFonts
