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Racing Sans

100 years before Helvetica and Univers (around 1800) the first Sans Serif typefaces to include lowercase letters used to have very high-contrast (the difference between thick and thin lines) because they were derived from traditional serif typefaces.

As the genre evolved the fashion was to create 'monoline' sans of very low-contrast.

Today, as a result, high-contrast sans are very rare and only a few are successful.


While digging in old specimens, we found 3 designs that immediately caught our eye: Doric Italic and Taylor Gothic from American Type Founders (1897), and Charter Oak from Keystone Type Foundry of Philadelphia (1906).

Paying tribute to this forgotten genre, Racing Sans is a modern high-contrast sans.


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Rosario, Argentina

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