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Christian Schwartz has partnered with Paul Barnes to form Commercial Type, a new type foundry based in London and New York. Please click here to visit our site.
RETAIL FONTS
Commercial Type:
Austin
Duplicate Sans (NEW)
Duplicate Slab (NEW)
Giorgio
Giorgio Sans
Graphik
Guardian
Local Gothic
Publico
Stag
Stag Sans
Stag Sans Round
Stag Stencil
Emigre:
Los Feliz
Font Bureau:
Amplitude
Farnham
Fritz
Pennsylvania
FontFont:
FF Bau
FF Meta Headline
FF Meta Serif
FF Oxide
FF Unit
FF Unit Slab
House Industries:
Casa Latino!
Luxury
Luxury Text
Neutraface
Neutraface Condensed
Neutraface No. 2
Neutraface Slab
Simian
Linotype:
Neue Haas Grotesk
CUSTOM FONTS
UNFINISHED WORK
EARLY WORK
ABOUT
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2013. Formerly known as Zizou Slab. Commissioned by Florian Bachleda at Fast Company. Available now from Commercial Type.
While Duplicate Sans was my attempt to draw Antique Olive from memory, the matching slab had no real historical precedent (I can't even imagine what the brilliant Roger Excoffon would have come up with had he decided to draw a slab serif.) I decided to start from the simplest place I could - snapping rectangular slabs onto the sans with a minimum of contrast - to see what that would yield before I tried to be any more clever with the design.

The straightforward approach seemed to work well, and my only indulgence was in adding a soft tail to the lowercase a. Duplicate Slab and Duplicate Sans have the same weight range, making them very easy to mix together. See some examples of the family in use in the Commercial Type news section.
Thin, Thin Italic, Light, Light Italic, Regular, Regular Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, and Black Italic.

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