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Bar/dining room Rosella serves Italian food in Collingwood, Australia. Their signs and website were designed by Studio Round. The identity pairs three typefaces with outspoken personalities. The restaurant name and sign are set in Solenizant Bold, designed by Maciej Połczyński and available from Laïc. Solenizant is an all-caps design, with width increasing in subsequent weights. Secondary information is set in Helmut Condensed, designed by Superscript² and available from Production Type. Like Solenizant, Helmut contains no regular lowercase; instead it features small caps measuring half the height of the capitals (not used for the design of Bar Rosellla). Short copy and the tag lines are set in the monospaced Clack Cursive, a freshly released typeface by Dennis Grauel, inspired by “styles found in select Underwood, Adler, Olympus and Hermes typewriters” — an interesting subgenre of typefaces, taking cues from a period in the mid-twentieth century when certain typewriter typefaces took inspiration from monolinear script fonts (see for instance Monoline Script) to lend a more spontaneous look to the typed output. Later digital typefaces which in turn are inspired by these script/typewriter hybrids include Operator Mono from Hoefler & Co. and the recently released Typewriter Script style of Dico (Bold Monday). These two are executed with more glyphs and more refinement than Clack Cursive. In this identity, the quirks of Clack Cursive fit right in, adding some warmth and charm. The shop window and the menu use Myriad.
Helmut Condensed
Rosella dining room and barThe New York Times Magazine’s 2015 Food Issue, art directed by Gail Bichler and Matt Willey used the Helmut typeface for all its titles and the index. In a tour de force, the magazine team managed to mix the three widths of Helmut, while also using stacked ligatures and tiled uppercases, even creating a custom ligature for the cover (‘Lo’). The result is delightful, astonishing and playful … exactly like the food! This issue has won two Silver Medals at The Society of Publication Designers 51st Annual Awards: one for its cover, the second one for its entire design.
Helmut Condensed
The New York Times Magazine, 2015 Food Issue
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About the designers
Superscript²
Designer
Superscript² is a Lyon-based graphic design studio, founded in 2006 by Pierre Delmas & Patrick Lallemand.
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Case-Sensitive Forms
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offDiscretionary Ligatures
LIGAtureS
offSlashed Zero
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offSuperscript
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offScientific Inferiors
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offNumerators
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offDenominators
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offFractions
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offOrdinals
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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 4
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offPair well with Helmut
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