Typophile

(x) Light sans serif - Foundry Sterling {Marc O}

anonymous

a real nice and elegant font that is quite "avenir-ish" to me (of course it's not avenir). b and g remind of dax. any ideas?

from pleon.com

Too many fonts, too little sleep: It *isn't* Jeremy Tankard's Bliss, no matter what I said earlier.

it reminds me of both Foundry Form Sans and DTL Argo but neither seems exact...

You were on the right track, Meta. It's actually Foundry Sterling.

http://www.foundrytypes.co.uk/

g'ah. so close. i should have gone to their site instead of googling form sans. good call, Marc. :-)

Never would have spotted it without your clues, Meta.

Both Bliss (my first thought) and Sterling flaunt their Britishness: David Quay describes Sterling as an attempt to create a "modern sans serif typeface that has a quintessentially English feel," while Jeremy Tankard says, "In developing Bliss, forms were chosen for their simplicity, legibility and

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