Otherwise, Fakt Soft weights correspond to those of the remaining Fakt family. The thinest weights of Fakt are not included in Fakt Soft, for perhaps obvious reasons. So like normal Fakt, Fakt Soft intelligently updates tradition with today’s tools and techniques.įakt Soft consists of eight weights of roman and italic designs, built around three widths. Remember, a good soap cleans well but the best soap makes bubbles, too!Īs a member of the Fakt family, Fakt Soft integrates Fakt’s stylistic ‘toggle’ that enables users to switch between grotesk and geometric sans serif ‘moods’, but now with soft effects. Today, softening may seem little more than a cliché, but it is compelling nonetheless and in skillful hands holds its freshness. Rounding the corners off a sans serif follows a long tradition, one that begins in the 1830’s when – together with shadowing – softening became one of the first effects ever applied to sans serifs. That Fakt now has a ‘soft’ option is nothing more than historically smart. The Fakt superfamily spans across multiple stylistic variants: Fakt, Fakt Slab, Fakt Soft, Fakt Stencil, Fakt Slab Stencil, and Fakt Mono.TYPE BY Fakt Soft is designed by Thomas Thiemich and is the third member of the Fakt family, joining Fakt (normal sans serif) and Fakt Slab. Additional features include small cap, lining and old style figures (each in tabular and proportional widths) fractions comprehensive superiors, inferiors, numerators and denominators case sensitive punctuation sets mathematical and monetary symbols arrows standard and discretionary ligatures (with their stylistic alternates) and a complete range of accents for all Western, Central and East European languages based on the Latin script.įakt is available in OTF CFF, TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 formats. Its character set includes small caps, stylistic alternates, and multiple figure sets. The Fakt font family has an extended range of thin weights, including the ethereal ‘Air’. Fakt's designer Thiemich views tradition from the present, and so has updated the past using today's tools and techniques with intelligence and cunning.įakt consists of ten weights of roman and italic designs, built around three widths. It is a well behaved child but also a clever one, respectful of its sanserif parents while bringing them new joy. The result is a double design that in each style is well balanced and refined.įakt is a child of its time, offering choices efficiently and in an accessible way. Switch between options and letter shapes are subtly changed, altering Fakt's mood. Instead, it offers a stylistic 'toggle' – to put it crudely: Helvetica-like or Futura-like. Fakt combines the best of each – of grotesk and geometrical sanserif traditions – but not by mere interpolation.

Released in 2010, it is Theimich's second commercially released typeface, following his humanist sanserif Alto.ĭifferent from Alto, whose design speaks of the 1990s, Fakt revisits archetypal sanserifs of earlier decades: Neue Haas Grotesk / Helvetica (the 1950s) and Futura (the 1920s). TYPE BY Fakt, designed by Thomas Thiemich, is a highly functional sanserif.

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