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Cabin

About

Cabin is a humanist sans inspired by Edward Johnston's and Eric Gill's typefaces, with a touch of modernism. Cabin incorporates modern proportions, optical adjustments, and some elements of the geometric sans. It remains true to its roots, but has its own personality.

The Cabin font family comes in two variable fonts, roman and true italic, with a Weight range from Regular to Bold, and a Width range from normal to Condensed. The stroke contrast is almost monolinear, although top and bottom curves are slightly thinned. Counters of the b, g, p and q are rounded, and all are optically adjusted.

Cabin has wide language support, including full Latin coverage of Vietnamese, additional to all Western, Central, and South/Eastern European languages.

To contribute, see github.com/impallari/Cabin

Designers

Pablo Impallari is Argentinian type designer based in Rosario.

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Rodrigo Fuenzalida is a Venezuelan Type Designer based in Santiago de Chile. He likes to draw fonts that could be used in video games. He also likes to do revivals of old designs. His work has been featured in various publications. He currently runs his independent type foundry fragTYPE.

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Choosing type

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.

Cabin - Google Fonts