Category | Sans-serif |
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Classification | Cross of Humanist and Geometric |
Designer(s) | Eric Olson |
Foundry | Process Type Foundry |
Date created | 2004 |
License | Proprietary |
Sample |
Klavika is a family of sans-serif fonts designed by Eric Olson and released by Process Type Foundry in 2004. It contains four weights: light, regular, medium, and bold (with corresponding italics) and variations of numerals. [1]
The family of typefaces is described as straight-sided technical sans-serifs [2] flexible for editorial and identity design. [3]
The capital G has no bar, the capital Q has a tail at the bottom, the lowercase g is double story, and the lowercase k has diagonal strokes that meet at the vertical, with a gap.
Andrew Paglinawan designed Manila Sans typeface that inspired from the Klavika typeface. [5]
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