GT Federal
Type Design
2008—2011
GT Federal is a typeface derived from both european and american type design. While its narrow and economic shapes are similar to american gothic typefaces, they also carry the swiss spirit of neutrality.
The bold version has still roughly drawn shape. The stroke ending of some characters will change in bolder weights, for example the lowercase e,s and a.
For GT Federal I wanted to have a distinct italic companion. Therefore I incorporated some humanistic traits. Although the version displayed here is still a bit too strongly emphasized for my taste...
Some sketches of how the typeface progressed.
