Big Daily Short
Specimen
Big Daily Short In Use
The first edition of the Libre Film Series took place in 2022 in the small coastal village of Santa Mónica, located in the Maldonado district of Uruguay. The five-days festival was mounted by the collective space Lablat who chose five Latin American films to project and discuss over the Laguna José Ignacio in the last days of December of that year. In the center of the curators’ interest was how, in their medium, filmmakers present creators from other fields of art, such as fine arts and landscape architecture. The graphic design advertising the event is the work of Julia Miceli Pitta, an Argentinian designer working in Buenos Aires and London. The key visual is the lettering piece “LiBRE” that combines the idea of light coming from a projector with splashy shapes reminiscent of the nearby lagoon. The big-size headline typeface is Big Daily, a roman with marked stroke contrast. The “Short” branch of this typeface series is distinguished by especially short ascenders and descenders, a feature brought to full splendor in the tight line spacing on the film posters. Miceli Pitta commented that she wanted a subtle and elegant typeface that would connect to the past while sitting comfortably in a modern identity. Big Daily was designed by Alaric Garnier and brought out by Production Type from Paris in 2020. The second typeface, used for the smaller reading text, is Archivo, a sans-serif of rather narrow width, designed by Héctor Gatti from Omnibus Type, Buenos Aires.
Big Daily Short Black
Libre Film SeriesFounded in 2017 by Rebecca Miquel and Nicolas Huet Greub, 1718 is a Paris-based agency specializing in the production of creative content and art buying. Their service to mostly well-known brands consists in assembling ever changing teams in order to realize film and photo shoots as much as print projects and digital events. The topic in this post is the stationery of 1718, but you should also check out the post featuring the design of their website. The graphic designers responsible for both are Léna Araguas and Alaric Garnier. Garnier is also the designer of the typeface used, Big Daily. Big Daily comes in six weights and draws its inspiration from small-size newspaper print and was published by Production Type in 2020. It is characterized by a large x-height, wide counters and a marked yet sturdy stroke contrast. The design is subtle in detail but lends itself just as well to big-size headline applications as can be seen here. Not on display here is its italic that sports a wonderful rhythm and dynamic movement. The 1718 inline logotype is a bespoke derivation of Big Daily Black. It’s interesting here to see how the designers managed to bridge the use of the logotype on the website and on the business cards. While it sits centered and black at maximum size on the landing page, it behaves similarly on the stationery, but the black is exchanged for blind embossing. This keeps the design principles intact and transposes the logotype into a visually and haptically appealing form. The production was carried out by Imprimerie du Marais, a high-brow printing house based in Paris, with a branch in London.
Big Daily Short Black
1718 Paris stationery
Information
Design
Release Date
2020-05-26Team
Version
1.002About this font
Alaric Garnier’s design translates between classic terms of journalism and the near-future: a mostly-digital world. The lexicon of news, writing, editorial, and facts comes to a head with the digital globalization dystopia — AI, Transhumanism, automation. Big Daily provides the tactile nature we’re used to in print that is a rare achievement on screen.
Formats
Static (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2)Language support
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About the designers
Alaric Garnier
Designer
Alaric Garnier superimposes the practices of a typeface designer, a letter painter, a graphic designer, and a publisher. His views on letter shapes have produced a small collection of explorative typefaces.
Glyphs
OpenType Features
Case-Sensitive Forms
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offStandard Ligatures
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offDiscretionary Ligatures
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offSlashed Zero
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offLining Figures
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offProportional Figures
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offTabular Figures
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offOldstyle Figures
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offSuperscript
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offFractions
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offOrdinals
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offOrnaments
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offStylistic Set 1
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offStylistic Set 2
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offStylistic Set 3
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offStylistic Set 5
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offPair well with Big Daily Short
Big Daily Short Regular Minotaur Sans BoldUser-Generated 54
Mechanical (3–7 Hz)
Big Daily Short Italic Stratos RegularUser-Generated 54
Mechanical (3–7 Hz)
Big Daily Short Black Proto Grotesk LightUser-Generated 54
Mechanical (3–7 Hz)
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