Shinntype’s Sense and Sensibility comprise a super-family of two styles of roman with italic, sharing stem widths, vertical metrics, and horizontal scale (though not exact equivalence of character widths). Sense is a modernist sans serif, while Sensibility is a humanist sans. Both are Compact, elegant and strong, and command any kind of page — from the largest headline to the smallest text. There are eight weights, with alternate figures and identical tab figure width across all 32 fonts.
The types were originally developed for David Pratt’s 2007 redesign of The Globe and Mail (“Canada’s National Newspaper”), and have subsequently been slightly modified, with the addition of a Black weight and extended language support.
Download the pdf to investigate further how these two sub-families complement and contrast each other.About the designer:
Nick Shinn has designed over 20 type families for a variety of publishers since 1980. In 1999 he went into the font business full time, launching Shinntype to publish and market his fonts worldwide.
Shinn’s eclectic type designs run the gamut from revivals to experimental work exploiting new technology, and are used in everything from packaging and advertising to internet, book, magazine, and newspaper publishing around the world. In 2001 he was commissioned to design the Richler commemorative typeface. He is currently developing a suite of typefaces for international use, with Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets.
Shinn has written for magazines including Applied Arts, Druk, Eye, Graphic Exchange, and Typographic, has spoken at the ATypI, TypeCon and Graphika conferences, and taught at Seneca College and York University in Toronto. From 2002 to 2006 he served as a board member of the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), which puts on the international conference TypeCon every year, and brought it to Toronto in 2002.
This package contains:
Sensibility Thin, Thin Italic, Extra Light, Extra Light Italic, Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic
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