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RETAIL FONTS
CUSTOM FONTS
Please note that, except where indicated, these typefaces are not available for licensing.
Publications:
Amplitude Classified
Amplitude Headline
Big Black Book Stencil
Brunel
Caponi
Farnham Headline
Houston
Kaiser (NEW)
Popular
Corporate Design:
Bosch
Deutsche Bahn
Eero
Empire State Building
Harrison
Munich Re Group
Symantec
UNFINISHED
EARLY WORK
ABOUT
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2004-2005. Commissioned by United Designers for Deutsche Bahn AG. Designed with Erik Spiekermann. Not available for relicensing.
A corporation the size of DB has thousands and thousands of existing documents (set in Arial, of course) that need to conform to the new corporate design but cannot have the text reflow. We refitted the Sans to Arial's widths, losing many of the more interesting details but improving on Arial's fit and retaining the distinctive 'g' and figures. The italic was particularly difficult to fit on the same widths.

We thought the monospaced version (matching Courier in width) was a little more clever, but ultimately not practical as the main office face.
Regular and Bold with italics.
More about each part of the family:
DB Sans & Sans Head
DB Serif
DB News
DB Office
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