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Description
Waldenburg is a highly sophisticated, carefully drawn sans serif typeface that was specifically designed to be adaptable for all analogue and digital uses w hile still remaining a warm and print-like character. It is a hybrid in many ways: Though it has a strong humanist and organic feel due to the strong vertical contrast and subtle squarishness its shapes still derive from a geometrical and mathematically precise construction. Waldenburg’s super high x-height, which is consitent throughout the family, gives it maximum compatibility between all cuts, high legibility and the possibility to set it in a very tight line spacing. This typeface perfectly blends a distinctive character with formal neutrality.
Background
Waldenburg lends his name from a small hilltop town in Southern Germany, where designer Michael Clasen grew up. Inspired by the region's hybridization of rural landscapes and strong technological innovation driven economy, its first sketches began in late 2019. Since then a whole superfamily consisting of 24 cuts, varying in weight and width, emerged. The corresponding Kursiv (Italic) cuts were designed by graphic and type designer Marcel Saidov and arrived in early 2022.
Design
Michael Clasen & Marcel Saidov
Character map
x-height
535
ascender
959
baseline
0
descender
-245
cap height
714
uppercase
lowercase
Numerals
Uppercase Accent
Lowercase Accent
Punctuation
Fractions
Currency & Math
Case Sensitive Forms
Ligatures
Arrows
Ordinals
Superscripts & Subscripts
Circled Numerals
Roman Numerals
Symbols
Features
Technical
Language Support
Afrikaans, Albanian, Asturian, 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, Igbo, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kabyle, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Koyra Chiini, Koyraboro Senni, Langi, 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, Prussian, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tachelhit, Taita, Tasawaq, Teso, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek, Volapük, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu.
Data | |
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Glyphs | 678 |
Cuts | 48 |
Languages | 70 |
Formats | 5 |
Formats | |
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.otf | OpenType |
.ttf | TrueType |
.woff | WOFF |
.woff2 | WOFF2 |
.eot | EOT |
Development | |
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Design | Michael Clasen |
Kerning | Michael Clasen |
Design (Kursiv) | Marcel Saidov |
Kerning (Kursiv) | Michael Clasen |
Open Type Features | |
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aalt | Access All Alternates |
locl | Localized Forms |
sinf | Scientific Inferiors |
sups | Superscript |
subs | Subscript |
frac | Fractions |
ordn | Ordinals |
salt | Stylistic Alternates |
ss01 | Stylistic Set 01 |
ss02 | Stylistic Set 02 |
ss03 | Stylistic Set 03 |
ss04 | Stylistic Set 04 |
ss05 | Stylistic Set 05 |
liga | Standard Ligatures |
hist | Historical Forms |
case | Case-Sensitive Forms |
numr | Numerators |
dnom | Denominators |
pnum | Proportional Figures |
tnum | Tabular Figures |
zero | Slashed Zero |