Sinova

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az These are only two of about 4400 glyphs of the Sinova font family.

Dies sind nur zwei von rund 4400 Zeichen der Sinova Schriftfamilie.

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The Sinova Pro, an OpenType font family of Linotype, includes 10 fonts with five finely graded weights. These five weights are complemented by respective oblique (Italic) font variants. The glyph set of the Sinova Pro offers extensive support for 48 languages. Die Sinova Pro, eine OpenType Schriftfamilie von Linotype, umfasst 10 Fonts mit f端nf feinabgestuften Strichst辰rken mit je einer kursiven Variante. Der Zeichensatz der Sinova Pro bietet umfassende Unterst端tzung f端r 48 Sprachen.

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Portrait of a new sans serif typeface

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Sinova Thin & Italic

Sinova Light & Italic

Sinova Regular & Italic

Sinova Medium & Italic

Sinova Bold & Italic

Sinova, the new humanistic sans serif font family, licensed by Linotype, designed by Christian Mengelt http://www.linotype.com/de/6601/sinova.html


Sinova, the new sans serif typeface In 2008, Christian Mengelt, the Swiss typeface designer and cofounder of the Basel Team’77, began with the first sketches for the development of the Sinova typeface family. The starting point for this was ‘Signa’, a linear serif typeface, which had been designed 30 years previously by Team‘77 for Bobst Graphic, Lausanne. The first idea was to redesign the ‘Signa’, but deeper form studies subsequently led to a largely new typeface design, the Sinova font family. The aim of the new typeface design was on the one hand, to preserve the characteristics and form quality of the old ‘Signa’ with its clear structure of form and its dynamically modulated ductus, and on the other hand, to include these characteristics in a new sans serif typeface with an independent character, which would be appropriate for today‘s typography and digital typesetting technology. In addition, particularly important were the requirements of good readability, even at small font sizes, and at low resolution (dpi) on the screen and in office printing. The Sinova font family includes 10 fonts with five finely graded weights of Sinova Thin, Sinova Light, Sinova Regular, Sinova Medium, and Sinova Bold. These fonts are complemented by respective oblique (Italic) variants. The clear functional form character of Sinova in conjunction with the dynamic letter rhythm, produces a lively, well-balanced overall image quality in the type setting, outstanding readability, and original typographic appearance. The Sinova font family is thus highly suitable for use both as an elegant, refined book typeface, as well as a text font for digital office printing. In addition, Sinova harmonizes with different Antiqua (Old Face) typefaces, when used either as a title or a text typeface. Moreover, the classically spaced capital letters and the dynamic flow of the Sinova Italic variants should also be highlighted. Following close cooperation between the type designer and Linotype, the final design of the Sinova font family attained the technical quality required for a modern sans serif typeface intended for a broad range of applications, and meeting the complex typographic requirements of digital print media. Font: Sinova Regular, 14pt, extended spacing as screen-face.


Sinova, die neue Linearantiqua Christian Mengelt, Schweizer Schriftgestalter und Mitbegründer des Basler Team’77, begann 2008 mit den ersten Entwürfen zur Entwicklung der Sinova Schriftfamilie. Den Ausgangspunkt dazu bildete die Linearantiqua «Signa», die bereits vor rund 30 Jahren vom Team’77 für Bobst Graphic, Lausanne, entworfen wurde. Zuerst bestand die Idee zu einem Re-Design der «Signa», vertiefte Formstudien führten jedoch in der Folge zu einem typografisch weitgehend neuen Design, der Sinova Schriftfamilie. Ziel der Neugestaltung der Schrift war einerseits, die Eigenart und Formqualität der alten «Signa», der klare Formaufbau und dynamisch modulierte Schriftduktus einer Linearantiqua, zu bewahren und andrerseits, diese in eine neue serifenlose Schrift mit eigenständigem Charakter umzusetzen, die der heutigen Zeit und Technik der digitalen Satzherstellung entspricht. Dabei waren die Anforderungen an eine gute Lesbarkeit der Schrift auch in kleinen Schriftgraden und bei geringer Rasterauflösung (dpi) auf dem Bildschirm und im Office-Druck besonders wichtig. Das Schriftprogramm der Sinova umfasst 10 Fonts mit 5 fein abgestuften Schriftfetten von Sinova Thin, Sinova Light, Sinova Regular, Sinova Medium bis Sinova Bold. Diese werden durch je eine geneigte (kursive) Variante ergänzt. Die klaren schlichten Zeichenformen der Sinova ergeben im Zusammenspiel mit dem bewegten Schriftrhythmus ein lebendiges, ausgeglichenes Satzbild von hervorragender Lesequalität und eigenständiger typografischer Anmutung. Die Sinova Schriftfamilie eignet sich damit vorzüglich sowohl als elegante, typografisch anspruchsvolle Buchschrift als auch als Textschrift für den digitalen Office-Druck. Die Sinova harmoniert jedoch auch zusammen mit verschiedenen Serifenschriften der Renaissance-Antiqua sowohl in der Anwendung als Titelschrift als auch als Textschrift. Hervorzuheben sind zudem der klassisch proportionierte Versalsatz und die geneigten (kursiven) Varianten der Sinova Italic mit ihrem fließenden Schriftduktus. In der engen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Schriftgestalter und Linotype erhielt die Sinova Schriftfamilie ihren letzten gestalterischen und technischen Schliff hin zu einer zukunftsweisenden serifenlosen Satzschrift für die vielfältigen Anwendungsbereiche und komplexen typografischen Anforderungen der digitalen Printmedien. Font: Sinova Italic, 14pt, offenere Laufweite als Bildschirm-Font.


Das Alphabet: Sinova Regular, 60pt

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The Alphabet: Sinova Italic, 60pt

ABCDEGHIJKLM NOPQR STUV W XYZÆŒ$€£¥&§ 012 3456789½¾ abcdefghijklmn opqrsßtuv w x y z ?!.:,;-*« »( )[ ]{ }@ äæçéęœôøñùþð +=×~<±÷‡∑µ¶... The full glyph set of the Sinova Pro, an OpenType font family of Linotype, offers extensive support for 48 languages.


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Sinova Bold: Example of an application as CD-cover

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Sinova Thin: Beispiel einer Anwendung als Buchtitel

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Die neuen Sinova Fonts sind beliebt in:

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