Canapé

Designed by: Sebastian Nagel

Released: 2013

Number of styles: 4

Script support: Latin Extended

Most suitable for: Display Use (logos, headlines, …), Corporate Design, Editorial Design

Notes: This font contains glyphs and/or features which are only accessible with fully OpenType-savvy applications.

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Canapé – working title Sofa – by Sebastian Nagel is based on the idea of letters with a subtly curved and slightly modulated line. Through this, the typefaces has a warm and friendly, almost haptical appearance which brings some kind of cosiness to your communication with type. Designed and crafted with great attention to detail, the type family is usable for copy texts as well as corporate design or display purposes. The design started in 2006 and Canapé (Serif) was released in 2013 after elaborate revisions and practical tests.
Canapé Serif with its 4 fonts and more than 4,200 characters contains a large amount of features like small capitals, swashes, 10 different figure sets, automated fractions, ordinals, standard and discretionary ligatures, language support for Central and Western Europe, a Capital Sharp S and a small sofa building kit. All features are conveniently accessible through OpenType features.

The initial release of Canapé consists of 4 members:

Regular
Italic
Bold
Bold Italic

The italics have an additional set of playful swash alternates for all relevant characters—especially useful for display use.

Default figure sets

Proportional and tabular figures as lining old-style versions.

Additional figure sets

Inverted figure set and italic swash figures as lining and old-style versions.

Metrics and class-based kerning.

Carefully crafted metrics and class kerning combinations guarantee optimal spacing for almost any case, minimizing the need for manual corrections by the user of the font.

Case-sensitive forms.

Punctuation, mathematical operators, brackets and so on are
replaced or repositioned for optimal alignment when text is set to »all capitals«. In addition the letter spacing is automatically increased.

Small Caps & All Caps

… changes small letters and punctuation to small capitals. “All small caps” also replaces figures, currency symbols and some special characters with small cap alternates.