The larger it becomes, the more one can see its character: a warm idealism, less sterilized than Helvetica, still with a hand in it-a crooked tooth in a perfect smile. Söhne is an interpretation of Akzidenz Grotesk.
So, I made the switcheroo to Söhne for this site’s design. Side-by-side comparison of Scto Grotesk A Bold (left) and Söhne Medium (right) It just worked-no alterations necessary to have it play nice. I think this is what’s going on here, made even more clear by dropping in Söhne. Sometimes you find yourself fighting against the nature of a typeface’s design. Take a peek: Animation flipping between different headline fonts for H2 and H3 Scto in bold felt really dark and wide in relation to Ivar Text. Using Scto in medium or regular weights for mid-tier headlines felt diminutive and blended in with the body text. Things are trickier at the in-between sizes, especially in relation to Ivar at its body text sizes (18 and 20px). Check it out: Scto Grotesk A at display and caption sizes Turns out, Scto looks amazing at small sizes (14, 15, 16px), and at large, display sizes, too (over 30px). In a previous post, I mentioned that I wanted to keep an eye on Scto’s performance at small sizes because of its width and proportionally smaller x-height.
It comes down to weight distribution and letter proportions. I was forcing it, so I changed directions. It was challenging to produce enough contrast in form while maintaining a size relationship between them. Scto and Ivar were having difficulty harmonizing.
Helvetica now redesign full#
I’ve spent the last few days looking at my hierarchy applied to full blog posts in a local dev environment. If you’ve read previous posts, they’ve focused on using Scto Grotesk as the sans-serif typeface. Your pal Frank bought some font licenses, and this site now uses the selected typefaces: Ivar Text and Söhne. Drop some confetti-but only some-to celebrate the tiniest launch.
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