font_designer: Gareth Hague

Schism Three

Schism Three font

Schism is a modulated sans-serif, originally developed from our Alias Didot typeface, as a serif-less version of the same design. It was expanded to three sub-families, with the thin stroke getting progressively heavier from...

Schism One

Schism One font

Schism is a modulated sans-serif, originally developed from our Alias Didot typeface, as a serif-less version of the same design. It was expanded to three sub-families, with the thin stroke getting progressively heavier from...

Schism Two

Schism Two font

Schism is a modulated sans-serif, originally developed from our Alias Didot typeface, as a serif-less version of the same design. It was expanded to three sub-families, with the thin stroke getting progressively heavier from...

Vertical

Vertical font

Alias Vertical is a sans serif typeface with a vertical cut-off point for letter endings. The vertical cut-offs bend round characters (b, c, o, etc) into a squarish, high-shouldered shape, suggesting Roger Excoffon’s Antique...

Quair

Quair font

The typeface that became Quair was originally planned as an extension of our Oban typeface. As it developed it became different enough to be a stand-alone, but connected typeface. Quair mixes typographic and graphic...

High

High font

High is defined by a set of simple ideas, or constraints. A non-geometric, humanist shape. A monoline weight. Stencilled, with a horizontal or vertical cut only, the stencil gap consistent ­— so positioned where...

Ano Angular

Ano Angular font

Ano Angular was originally designed for a fashion company. It was to be used as a headline type, half way between the logo we had designed — made up of straight lines only —...

Sabre

Sabre font

I generally refer to our typefaces as ‘graphic’ rather than typographic. By that I mean their starting points are usually ways of constructing shapes and systems of shapes. As with other Alias typefaces, Sabre...

Capo

Capo font

The intention with Capo was to make a typeface with a pinched, angled connection between curves and verticals. We have explored this incised, cut motif previously on typefaces, most notably Noah, Sabre and Harbour....

AnoStencil

AnoStencil font

Stencil typefaces are popular because they are striking and decorative, and their associations – whether Utility, Travel, Vernacular, etc – are evocative. Anostencil is developed from, but not exactly like, our Ano typeface. Ano’s...