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Contents
02 Contents 04 Type Specimen 06 Type Texture 08 History & Designer 10 Classification & Anatomy 12 Function & Usage 14 Quotation
the quick the quick Type specimen
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BROWN fox
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JUMPS OVER
THE LAZY DOG
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THE LAZY DOG
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Type texture
ITC Kabel Book Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g (9/12) Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g
Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g (10/13) Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g (10/14)
(9/13) Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g. (9/14) Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and
Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g. (10/15) Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and
Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly
Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly
completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the
completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the
typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry.
typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry.
Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar,
Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar,
and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular
and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular
stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g
stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g
(9/15)
(10/16)
ITC Kabel Medium
Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g
Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g (10/14)
(9/13) Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g. (9/14) Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and
Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g. (10/15) Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and
Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly
Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly
completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the
completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the
typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry.
typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry.
Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar,
Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar,
and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular
and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular
stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g
stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g
(9/15)
(10/16)
Type texture
Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g (9/12)
Begun by Rudolf Koch in 1925 for the Klingspor foundry. The typeface family was expanded and changed over the decades by D. Stempel AG and Linotype. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable. Today the typeface is licensed by the Elsner+Flake GbR foundry. Kabel is a geometric sans serif, similar to Futura, Erbar, and Nobel. It is best characterized by its angular stroke endings, its Venetian e, and its distinctive g (10/13)
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Serifâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was booming in Germany. It has existed since the beginning of 19th century but received more attention after. Late 1920, German foundries lead type design industry with the sans serif which is based on geometrical shape. Futura is one of the representative font. It was created based on an ideology of Bauhaus. The ideolgy was not only simplifying alphabet but also rejecting old, fancy style of typefaces influenced by grotesque typefaces. It was aesthetically new and remarkable at that time. Kabel was also created during this time.
Designer Rudolf Koch was born in 1876 in Germany. He was a calligrapher, type designer and teacher. In 1906 he joined the Klingspor type foundry as a type designer. He designed at least 30 typefaces for Klingspor, Kabel is one of his best known typeface. Kabel was designed in 1927. Koch was concerned with the new type industry and tried to preserve history of typography in his typefaces. He illustrated in balance between traditional and modern forms. As the result, Kabel has elements of roman alphabets and number of letters which set apart them from geometric sans serif at that time. It was redesigned and named ITC Kabel later on. Victor Caruso updated few attributes such as greater x-height, consistent stroke weight, diamond shaped tittles, etc. It is more widely used than the original label in these days.
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Classification & Anatomy
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GeometricSans Kabel is geometric sans serif and humanistic sans which had been influenced from roman alphabets. It has minimal contrast and vertical stress. Few letters of kabel are calligraphic. ITC Kabel has shorter descender and larger x-height than original kabel.
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Kabel in use
signage. It had positive reaction when it was released. Modern companies have used it for their display face because of the uniqueness of its glyphs. NBC employed heavy weight of Kabel for onscreen sports graphics. MTV used it for music video credit font until 2011. Leggs’ pantyhose modified it for their brand logo. PiggyWiggy American supermarket used its lowercase form. Also, Kabel has been used in many TV shows, albums and films such as Disney cartoon series, my bloody valentine’s album ‘Loveless’, film ‘Searching for Sugar Man’, etc. The most well known usages of Kabel are logo for Toronto Maple leafs, Monoploy board game and ‘the Sims 3’.
Function & Usage
Kabel is best used for logo, title and
Quotation
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The making of letters in every form is for me the purest and the greatest pleasure, and at many stages of my life it was to me what a song is to the singer, a picture to the painter, a shout to the elated, or a sign to the oppressed. It was and is for me the most happy and perfect expression of my life.â&#x20AC;? - Rudolph Koch
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