Flex your OpenType muscles: get stylized, contextualized, indulge in some ligaddiction. Agatized Formal is a big, bold typeface with a charismatic presence that commands attention – in a friendly way, of course.But what really makes this typeface come alive is its arsenal of alternative characters and ligatures. Designed primarily for display use, it’s ideal for posters, logos, advertising, book cover designs or small chunks of text such as pull-out quotes.It exudes authority without taking itself seriously, like a plump jolly uncle in charge of a brass band. All Bananas fonts come with a full glyph complement supporting the majority of Latin languages, as well as five sets of figures, automatic fractions, quite a few ligatures, biform/unicase shapes and other stylistic alternates.Agatized Formal is a chunky stencil typeface with slightly condensed letterforms and tight spacing. The entire development process happened in a highly precise interpolative environment. Then a few Dave West designs informed the design development and weighting process, before narrow and wide takes were sketched out and included in the family. Headliners’ Catalina and its very similar cousin, Letter Graphics’ Carmel, served as initial study points. So we’re quite excited to issue Bananas, a fun sans serif family in 6 weights and 3 widths that can be used anywhere your designer’s imagination can take you.Rather than being based on a single design, Bananas was sourced from multiple American film era faces, all from 1950s and 1960s, when the casual sans genre was at its popular peak. The casual sans is the natural high pill of typesetting.We figured it was high time for the casual sans to adapt to 21st century technology, gain more versatility, and become as much fun to use as the emotions it triggers. Fun, bouncy, playful, and highly exciting, the casual sans serif is now all over game packaging, film and animation titles, book covers, food boxes, concert posters, and pretty much everywhere design aims to induce excitement about a product or an event. The ongoing saga of this (still as popular as ever) sub-genre dates back to the maturity of the Industrial Age and early Hollywood film titling, runs through the prosperous times of interwar print publications, sees mass flourishing during the various media propagations of the film type era, and solidifies itself as arguably the most common design element in the latter years of the century. In the history of 20th century graphic arts, the evolution of the informal sans serif has been a uniquely American phenomenon.
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