Hi folks,
Does anybody know of a sans/serif family where the serif has taller ascenders/descenders than the sans? I'm considering this option for my own font, but I'm afraid it might take away the unity.
Cheers! jasper
The concept of mixed sans/serif families is fairly new (eg something that has started in the last decades). Earlier examples are in the line of what Frutiger did: using an existing sans or serif family as a starting point for a variant serif or sans. If I recall correctly the block serif Serifa shares a lot of basic forms with Univers.
Another example of this procedure, but maybe more controlled is what Martin Majoor did with Scala. He first did the sans and the serif a couple of years later.
I don’t think you will find a lot of examples.
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