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Sweet Sans

Sweet Sans™

by Sweet
Individual Styles from $59.00 USD
Complete family of 24 fonts: $1,070.00 USD
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Sweet Sans Font Family was designed by Mark van Bronkhorst and published by Sweet. Sweet Sans contains 24 styles and family package options.

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    Sweet Sans Complete Family Pack

     24 fonts

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    Per Style:

    $44.58 USD

    Pack of 24 styles:

    $1,070.00 USD

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    Sweet Sans Small Caps Package 1

     8 fonts

    Per Style:

    $37.37 USD

    Pack of 8 styles:

    $299.00 USD

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    Sweet Sans Package 1

     8 fonts

    Per Style:

    $37.37 USD

    Pack of 8 styles:

    $299.00 USD

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    About Sweet Sans Font Family

    The engraver’s sans serif—strikingly similar to drafting alphabets of the early 1900s—has been one of the most widely used stationer’s lettering styles since about 1900. Its open, simple forms offer legibility at very small sizes. While there are digital fonts based on this style (such as Burin Sans™ and Sackers Gothic™, among others), few offer the range of styles and weights possible, with the versatility designers perhaps expect from digital type families. Sweet Sans fills that void. The family is based on antique engraver’s lettering templates called “masterplates.” Professional stationers use a pantograph to manually transfer letters from these masterplates to a piece of copper or steel that is then etched to serve as a plate or die. This demanding technique is rare today given that most engravers now use a photographic process to make plates, where just about any font will do. But the lettering styles engravers popularized during the first half of the twentieth century—especially the engraver’s sans—are still quite familiar and appealing. Referencing various masterplates—which typically offer the alphabet, figures, an ampersand, and little else—Mark van Bronkhorst has drawn a comprehensive toolkit of nine weights, each offering upper- and lowercase forms, small caps, true italics, arbitrary fractions, and various figure sets designed to harmonize with text, small caps, and all-caps. The fonts are available as basic, Standard character sets, and as Pro character sets offering a variety of typographic features and full support for Western and Central European languages. Though rich in history, Sweet Sans is made for contemporary use. It is a handsome and functional tribute to the spirit of unsung craftsmanship. Burin Sans and Sackers Gothic are trademarks of Monotype Imaging.

    Designers: Mark van Bronkhorst

    Publisher: Sweet

    Foundry: Sweet

    Design Owner: Sweet

    MyFonts debut: Apr 29, 2011

    Sweet Sans™ is a trademark and 'Sweet' is a registered trademark of Markanna Studios Inc.

    About Sweet

    Sweet Fonts Collection is a growing range of engraving lettering styles from the 20th Century. With the advent of the engraving machine (a pantograph device) around 1900, commercial engraving moved from the use of hand-cut plates to the use of masterplates (lettering patterns). Lettering was traced from the masterplate using the engraving machine, letter by letter, onto a coated steel plate, that would then be etched in a chemical bath. The resulting plate was used to print engraved stationery with th...

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