Material WIP « Typefaces

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Nicolas EigenheerNicolas Eigenheer

Nicolas Eigenheer grew up on the shore of the lake of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He now lives and works in Zürich. Eigenheer graduated with a bachelor’s degree in visual communication from the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). Active both in graphic and type design, he worked at the Gavillet & Rust studio in Geneva from 2006 to 2011, after which he took a position as a book designer at JRP Ringier publishers in Zürich. In 2018, he established his own design practice in Zürich. Nicolas Eigenheer was awarded at the Swiss Federal Design Awards in 2008 for his excellent type and graphic design work. Many of his book designs were recognized among The Most Beautiful Swiss Books over the years, including Peter Halley, Paintings of the 1980s, The Catalogue Raisonné, in 2019.

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Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Volapük, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Zulu

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Material is a contemporary slab-serif typeface designed by Nicolas Eigenheer. Completely redrawn and extended into a larger family by Niklas Hermann, Material’s design is characterized by its combination of precise curves and geometric brutality with a minimal stroke contrast in lighter weights, which is, however, pushed to extremes around junctions in the heavier styles. It features distinctive unbracketed slab serifs, typical of Egyptian types.

Originally inspired by Breite fette Egyptienne from the Bauer Foundry (actually a replica of Vincent Figgins’s Antique, considered by some to be one of the first examples of a slab-serif type), it was primarily used on advertisements and hoardings. Much like its inspiration, Material is an attention-grabbing typeface and will serve outstandingly well for any headline, display or text tasks.

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