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The new typeface, Cooper Hewitt, is a contemporary sans serif, with characters composed of modified-geometric curves and arches. Initially commissioned by Pentagram to evolve his Polaris Condensed typeface, Chester Jenkins created a new digital form to support the newly transformed museum. “Developing this typeface specifically for Cooper Hewitt has been enormously gratifying,” said Jenkins. “Instead of building on the Polaris structures, I drew everything from scratch, using the existing forms as a rough guide for letter widths and master-stroke thicknesses.” The Cooper Hewitt typeface is available for free of charge for unrestricted public use under the SIL Open Font License and has been downloaded more than 25,000 times from our website. Examples of its uses are sent to us regularly and we are thrilled to share the creative work inspired by the font’s bold design. We welcome your project submissions, suggestions for improvements, and hacked versions of the font that make our typeface truly your own.
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Type Anat square dot
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bottom space is larger
leg touch arm
Anatomy
GHIJKLM TUVWXYZ ijklm vwxyz flat
square dots, larger than stem
straight end
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The letter “o� of this font is not a perfect circle. Compare to Avenir, it more look like an oval but not a geomatric circle.
Cooper Hewitt is a contemporary sans serif. The stroke is like human sans because it has similarities. The bowls of it is similar with Times New Rome. It start with thin stroke and then gradually becomes thicker.
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1. The stroke strats with a thinner line. 2: It gradually becomes thicker. This’s similar with humanist font. 3. It’s widest part of the and the middle part of the stroke has the same line weight. 4. Stem is not straight. 5. It is the shape for the bottom of the stem.
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M M is a mirror letter. The apexes are flat, and the bottom stroke are also flat. The line weight are eactly the same. This is the characteristic of Cooper Hewitt font capital letters.
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