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Josefin Slab

Designed by Santiago Orozco

About

Josefin Slab was the first typeface–at least in my mind–I designed! But I decided to start simple with Josefin Sans. Following the 1930s trend for geometric typefaces, it just came to me that something between Kabel and Memphis with modern details will look great.

I wanted to stick to the idea of Scandinavian style, so I put a lot of attention to the diacritics, especially to "æ" which has loops connecting in a continuous way, so the "e" slope was determined by this character.

It also has some typewriter style attributes, because I've liked the Letter Gothic typeface since I was in high school, and that's why I decided to make a Slab version of Josefin Sans.

Designer

Santiago Orozco is a type designer and engineer, based in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. With a background in computer science at the University of Monterrey (UDEM), he found himself at the intersection between design and technology. In 2009, he Founded Typemade Foundry, and now specializes in type design, font production, and type technology.

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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.

Josefin Slab - Google Fonts