Therefore, Koning Display has quite a few kerning pairs. In a display font, everything is more compact differences in distances between punctuation and letter shapes become very obvious and need pair-specific adjustments. For a text font, the focus would be more on the rhythm of white spaces inside and between the letters, and all punctuation is to be spaced with more air. Since Koning Display is a display design – the intended size range is right there in the name – the emphasis when spacing and kerning its letterforms was on achieving equal distances between shapes. This helps in the overall spacing of the typeface because it allows the font’s default spacing to be compact. In Koning Display’s Black weight, the counters inside of letters are small. We are eager for our customers to tell us themselves. Type designers sometimes tell graphic designers what a typeface is for, but Koning is not like that. It was not developed for branding on the cosmetics market, either – even though we think it could tackle that kind of application well. This is important because Koning is not specifically intended to be a typeface for editorial design work, for instance, like Floris and Spiegel Sans are. That is everyday work anyway: custom-type clients come to him because they need something specific Luc(as) is the best font developer who can deliver that for them. Luc(as) wants to make graphic designers’ jobs easier, but his fonts are not all drawn with a specific area of use in mind.
This animation shows how Luc(as) can control the contrast in the interpolated weight without changing the design of the masters. We even invented new constructions to fine-tune contrast in interpolated weights. Time and many revisions allow typefaces to ripen. Named after the Dutch word for “king,” the design was an in-house side project we revisited over and over again for about a decade-and-a-half. We released Koning Display in November 2019. The wide range of weights and styles shipping as part of the Koning Display family can be seen in this sample above. We are grateful that our efforts have been recognized with numerous awards: TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence and Award of Excellence from Communication Arts both in 2018, and Gold from German Design Awards in 2020. We gained a lot of knowledge working on those projects, and we have funnelled that technical know-how into our library’s newest typeface: Koning Display. In the last few decades, LucasFonts has developed specialized custom font solutions for all sorts of clients: from newspapers and television stations to pushing the boundaries for electronic companies and several automobile manufacturers from transparent PNG fonts to variable fonts, for which we built tools first. Koning Display: technologically-advanced curves
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