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Thesis (typeface)

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Classic family includes all 8 font weights, with roman, italic, small caps roman, small caps italic, expert, expert italic in each weight. It includes hanging proportional, hanging monospaced, lining proportional, lining monospaced figures; and additional f-ligatures. Expert fonts include arrows,
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It is a variant designed by Lucas de Groot, Arab calligrapher and designer Mouneer Al-Shaarani, and with technical support from Pascal Zoghbi. Lucas designed the Bold version of the type, while Pascal finalized the Bold design by modifying some glyphs, spacing and encoding/scripting the font, and
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technology, in which weights were created by 'averaging' and extending the trend between a thick and thin design to create a smooth, continuous trend in styles from thin to very bold. The fonts also include a large number of
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TheAntiqua is a variant based on TheSerif. It included fonts in 7 weights and 1 width, with complementary italic fonts. OpenType feature includes small caps (roman only). TheAntiqua won an award in 1999 from
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It is a monospaced variant with ragged strokes. It included fonts in regular and bold weights in the widest TheSansMono width, with complementary italic fonts. It uses hanging monospaced figures.
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It is a slab serif font family, but using only serif on upper portion of small letters. It included fonts in 8 weights and 1 width, with complementary italic fonts.
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A new typeface was developed specifically for the V&A, the 'V&A Sans' (adapted from TheSans font, which had been designed by Luc(as) de Groot in 1994
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Basic family includes all 8 font weights, but without small caps and expert fonts. It includes lining proportional figures (smaller than in classic).
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were designed between 1994 and 1999 to provide a modern humanist family. Each typeface is available in a variety of weights as well as in
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Office family only includes Regular and Bold weights, with only roman and italic in each weight. It includes hanging monospaced figures.
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TheSans is a well-equipped font, featuring Ǖ, Ǘ, Ǚ and Ǜ, Vietnamese small-caps, six alternative ampersands and many more cool extras.
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As an amusement, de Groot also developed a number of parodic reworkings of Thesis, including Nebulae and JesusLovesYouAll.
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It is a monospaced variant. Each weight only includes roman and italic. All fonts use hanging monospaced figures.
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To create a varied range of fonts of different thicknesses and levels of condensation, Thesis was developed using
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de Groot's choice of weights to release was developed using an "interpolation theory". The optical interpolation
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It is a slab serif font family. It included fonts in 8 weights and 1 width, with complementary italic fonts.
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Offshoot font families of the Thesis font superfamily include TheAntiqua, Nebulae, and JesusLovesYouAll.
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In TheSans Condensed, each weight only includes roman and italic, but all 4 number styles can be found.
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It is a monospaced variant. 3 widths have been produced. All fonts use hanging monospaced figures.
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The font was included in the Typographic Matchmaking Project organized by the Khatt Foundation.
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Each of the family are categorized in following family collections: Classic, Basic, Office.
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Thesis fonts have become popular and can be seen in various publications or logotypes.
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in 1994, it has been sold by de Groot through his imprint LucasFonts since 2000.
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TheMix Arabic: balancing handwritten and geometrically constructed letterforms.
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swashes, fraction figures, alternate styles, mathematic symbols, ornaments.
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A humanist sans-serif font family, somewhat similar to
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Index

TheSerif

Category
Classification
Humanist
Designer(s)
Luc(as) de Groot
Foundry
Luc(as) de Groot
typefaces
italic
FontFont
multiple master
stylistic alternate
font superfamily
serif
sans-serif
Syntax
Frutiger
Dwiggins'
Metro


Type Directors Club
geometric mean
arithmetic mean

Social Democratic Party of Germany

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