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Neo Sans and Utopia

Noah Nazir
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Last edited August 14, 2018
Neo Sans
Utopia
safety
fiddlesticks
Line up to block in the seafood

The branding agency's client wanted an "ultra modern" typeface that was "futuristic without being gimmicky or ephemeral," according to the design brief. Designer Sebastian Lester took on this intriguing custom font assignment, but soon, a bureaucratic decision cancelled the project."I was left with a sketchbook full of ideas and thought it would be a shame not to see what came of them," says... Read More

mystic
enthusiastic
One step ahead to civilization

Utopia, created by Robert Slimbach and presented by Adobe in 1992, was intended to solve a number of typographic problems related to office correspondence. This demanded versatility, so Slimbach created a font family with cuts for text, for titles, extra bold for headlines, small caps, all caps with numerals, old face numerals, fractions, ligatures and scientific markings. Not just its forms,... Read More

Patrick Giasson and Sebastian Lester
Monotype 2004
Robert Slimbach
Adobe 1989