Steven Le

SK Ilke Mono is a "mono geometric sans" font family. Designed by Salih Kızılkaya in 2021, this font is designed for the needs of designers and software developers. Character ranges and proportions of characters have been specially designed so that you can use it comfortably in any area you want to use mono font.

SK Ilke offers full support for the Latin alphabet and includes many typographic elements that you will need in your designs. It contains 22 different fonts and 12,760 glyphs in total. Each font of this font family contains 580 glyphs. In this way, it offers you all the typographic elements you will need in your designs and aims to meet all your design needs.

JT Collect by OGJ is a Grotesk applied at global sportswear brand NIKE.

Designer and Art Director Interview with Redwan El-Harrak (for Sang Bleu), who played a central role at the Nike LDN Capsule Collection — designed for the 2019 London Marathon.

OGJ: Welcome Red, thanks for taking time for an interview regarding the excellent job you did at the Nike project! Please tell us more about why you chose Collect and how you worked with it.

RED: No problem and thank you for the kind words. Collect was an easy choice to make and was a design decision made pretty quickly actually. The breadth of the Collect family meant that was a lot of different personalities to pick from and I instantly felt that the Max style had a certain energy that aligned perfectly to the Nike brand — in a way it felt like it always belonged to that world once I saw it in the design. The Max Italic in particular added some movement with its inclusion.

Both the Max and Max Italic weights were used for the wordmark and during the design process Maxime Büchi and I realised that the symmetrical N leant itself cleverly as a connector for LDN and RUN.

In the end the concept leant heavily on Collect, with the typeface doing a lot of the work.

OGJ: Can you tell us more about the illustration concept?

RED: Well the illustration was kind of the first starting point of the concept. In my mind I wanted to show London as a deconstructed landscape with the fragments that could fill a runner’s environment, which is experienced in almost a distorted sense due to being on the move. So we have architectural scraps of Big Ben and other quintessential monuments of London sitting on top of humble newsagents and chicken shops.

I knew straight away who I wanted to commission with Stijn Jonckheere and his style essentially being the baseplate of the concept.

Once we had that part of the puzzle figured out, that’s when we moved onto the type work and where Collect also really helped. So on one hand the typeface felt very connected to the Nike brand but also sat well with Stijn’s work and he did an excellent job integrating and embedding it as a graphic device into his airy yet industrial aesthetic.

OGJ: Do you see the other weights being able to work to give different personalities?

RED: Absolutely. It was the biggest draw for me in the first place as part of the design process — it’s really useful to have a type family such as the Collect on hand as it allows me to test ‘personas’ out quickly; changing the weights, playing with the tracking and typesetting etc in order to find the right feeling within some set parameters.

I can see it being applied in a multitude of ways. Ranging from very functional contexts right up to more display led use in editorials and posters. Then you have the possibilities of packaging, branding and so on – if anything kudos to you Oliver for creating such a great family.

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Pair JT Collect with a condensed cut of the Trade Gothic.

With the Caslon.

Pairs also very well with a traditional Chinese, Japanese or Arabic type.

Causten Round is a geometric sans serif font family with round corners and maintains rationality in designing each form. With use the sharpness of the eyes, and remain logical, so that balance is maintained in each form. So, it will get a clean, neat, and perfect shape.

Causten Round comes with 9 weights and a matching oblique, making it 18 styles. It makes it perfect for all creative projects. Also, some alternative glyphs will be an attractive choice.

Pilfnof contains:

- 388 glyphs which include: Basic Latin, Latin Extended - A, Latin 1 - Supplement and General Punctuation.

- 4 weights: Light, Regular, Bold and Black

Pilfnof is a reverse contrast serif font family. Purpose of the project was to design a standing out modern serif which revolves around reverse contrast. Width of strokes is fully reversed. Weight, width and contrast are regular while x-height is high. It contains uppercase and lowercase letters and lining figures.

Pilfnof is perfect for use in Branding and Publications. It can be used both for text as well as headings and titles. Heavy weights are ideal for headlines while light weights are suitable for body text. 

Elgraine is a serif typeface inspired by the beauty of classic serif and calligraphic style, fused with modern touch.

Ranging from thin to black with its matching italics, Elgraine offers many possibilities to be applied in many graphic or editorial projects. The light and regular weights are suitable for long paragraph, and the heavier weights are perfect for striking headlines, perfectly suitable for display purpose such as branding, editorial, and packaging. 

Elgraine has extended latin character set that supports 200+ latin-based languages.

Oliver Serif, clean, contemporary and sophisticated. It is available in 3 distinctive weights-Regular, Bold and Ultra with matching italics. Oliver Serif is a fine choice for a variety of uses ranging from body text to bold dynamic headlines and branding applications. A perfect choice for both digital and print.

Monesta® is a confident smooth serif font family. Designed by Aulia Rahman, Monesta® it creates a sense of softness and expressiveness. the concept into usability focused direction, to work as a bold tool and beautiful communicator.

Monesta variable allows design across 9 weights, major Latin based languages, and Cyrillic. Monesta® bringing energy and making it suitable for modern design.

Belfast Grotesk™ 9 weights, 18 uprights and Oblique.

Each typeface contains over 700+ glyphs with latin extensive Western, Central and Eastern European language support, Free updates and feature additions.

Belfast Grotesk™

influenced by the grotesk typefaces developed in the early 20th century. Attempts to follow the best traditions of Grotesk typefaces. A good amount of contrast between the stroke thickness of each weight. Belfast Grotesk™ was developed with unique glyphs to offer best flexibility. An airy metric aids good legibility in short texts.

OPENTYPE FEATURES 

Including tabular figures, alternate characters, ligatures, fractions, case-sensitive forms, superscripts, subscripts etc.

This is Berka, a low contrast hybrid typeface which combine grotesque typeface traditions with geometry and a little touch of humanistic . This font family comes in 7 weights from Thin to Black with matching italics. 

Each family member of Berka also equipped with useful OpenType features such as Ordinals, Superscripts, Subscripts, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Sets, Proportional Lining, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Numerators & Denominators. Each font has 490+ glyphs which covers Western & Eastern Europe, and other Latin based languages – over 200 languages supported!

Berka will be suitable for many creative projects. With its versatility, Berka typeface will be suitable for logos, posters, presentations, headlines, lettering, branding, quotes, titles, magazines, headings, web banners, mobile applications, art quotes, advertising, packaging design, book title, and more!

Gopher Mono is a reverse contrast, monospace sans serif typeface. This 16 font family ranges in weight from thin to black, with italics. The design provides a unique look to the monospaced genre by using a contrast where the vertical strokes are a little thinner with horizontal strokes thicker.

While monospaced fonts are typically used for smaller body text, the slightly unusual quirks of a reverse contrast design make it interesting enough to also use for display treatments. So style and function are blended.

Pair Gopher Mono with the Gopher Display, Normal, and Text families—with varying degrees of reverse contrast being the design thread that unites them all together.

Gopher Mono includes features to enhance your typography:

• Stylistic alternate "a"
• Case-sensitive punctuation for All Caps
• Fractions, superscript, subscript
• Slashed zero
• Arrow icons

This font has extensive Latin language support (100+ Latin languages) for Western, Central, and South Eastern European. Gopher Mono will find its home in a variety of settings for branding, advertising, magazines, editorial, packaging, and more.

Iverse is a monospace font that come with 2 (two) different type of styles, Regular and Bold. The sans serif based structure is clean and versatile and perfect for body copy and display.

Suitable for codings, captions, description details, layouts, and posters.

Meet Proda Sans, a humanist typeface with geometric construction inspired by the humanist-style sans serif faces that were popular in the mid 20th-century. Its calligraphic influenced letterforms have been adjusted to have geometric’s low-stroke-contrast for better legibility. The medium x-height give it a warm and delicate appearance, and keep your page bright.

It's a family of nine weights plus matching italics. The thin and the black weights are great for display purposes. The light, book and regular weights are well suited for longer paragraphs and smaller texts.​​​​​​​ 

Proda Sans is developed for advanced typography needs. The OpenType fonts have an extended character set to support 200+ latin-based languages. For full presentation please visit my Behance profile.

Introducing Magical Source is a stylish serif font, every character uppercase and lowercase have alternates font. This font is equipped with more than 200 alternative fonts so you can mix and match every alternate based on your taste. This font still outstanding look, although you don't switch on the alternate. Magical Source font is a versatile font, the font can covering to headlines, titles, logotype, branding, pull quotes & monograms, and etc.

Planca is a sans serif typeface with medium contrast and distorted rhythm of the line. Spaced and mastered for optimal readability. All lines are of equal thickness. Its morphology is based on the study of traditional writing with a wide tip stick. It comes in 4 different weights (Light, Regular, Bold and Black) and provide multilingual support.

Reduta is a new, modern font family, with fresh wide line, graphically attractive both upper and lower case letters. Spaced and mastered for optimal readability, Reduta plays well in a wide range of projects and applications. The typeface comes with a wide character set and provide multilingual support.

Rafter is a new, sans font family, with modern, narrow line, graphically attractive with both upper and lower case letters. Spaced and mastered for optimal readability, Rafter plays well in a wide range of projects and applications. The typeface provides multilingual support.

Introducing Neufreit, the younger brother of Creo but softer and finer proportion with sharper apex & vertex. It comes in 9 weights with matching italic styles, starting from ExtraLight to Heavy as the heaviest weight.

This family is equipped with useful OpenType features such as Ordinals, Superiors, Stylistic Sets, Tabular Figures, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Numerators & Denominators. Each font has 500+ glyphs which covers Western & Eastern Europe, and other Latin based languages – over 200 languages supported!

Neufreit will be suitable for many creative projects. This distinctive typeface that will be perfect for logos, packaging, greeting cards, presentations, headlines, lettering, posters, branding, quotes, titles, magazines, headings, web layouts, mobile applications, art quotes, advertising, invitations, packaging design, books, book title, and more.

Fiorina is a modern Didone-style serif typeface of 72 fonts. It comes in 4 optical sizes, ranging from Text with moderate contrast to super-contrasted Grande.

Each cut comes in 9 weights with corresponding sophisticated italics. The overall variety of styles makes Fiorina the ultimate magazine typeface.

The glyph set supports all European Latin-based languages, as well as all major languages that use Cyrillic script. The type family also suppors numerous OpenType features, including 6 sets of digits, small caps, fractions, superscript and subscripts, ordinals, and more.