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Tasse
Tasse is a revival of Paul Renner's Steile Futura.
About Tasse
Tasse is a revival of Paul Renner's Steile Futura. The family consists of 4 weights and 5 widths each, but no italic fonts were made. Nelson maintained Renner's alternative characters, adding additional alternate characters. The face is licensed by Font Bureau. Tasse shows the influence of pen-written letters in contrast to the modular geometry of Futura. The face is unusual for a sans-serif in having a true italic rather than a sloped Roman. Lowercase italic a becomes single story, and the suggestion of calligraphic strokes are found in the italic characters e, h, K, k, m, n, and u. Renner's original character set offered alternative, more rounded, versions of uppercase roman characters A, E, M, and W.
From the Wikipedia article “Tasse”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Tasse in a book
Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.
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Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q1876249 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).