Mars
Subfamilies
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Styles
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed ExtraLight
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed ExtraLight Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Light
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Light Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed SemiLight
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed SemiLight Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Regular
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Medium
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Medium Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Bold
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Bold Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Black
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €70Mars Condensed Black Italic
Information
Design
Alaric Garnier
Release Date
2024-11-12Team
Charly Derouault
Quentin Schmerber
Hugues Gentile
Marion Sendral
Michele Brianza
Version
3.001About this font
Mars is a sturdy interpretation of select vernacular signs from North America. Its designer blended diverse flavors — conjuring the rocky beaches of Seattle, the streets of New Orleans, and eventually the harbor of Marseille, France.
Mars came to life in 2016 as a 2-widths minifamily, with one cut for each width. The dynamic duo consisted of a pumped-up extended style, and a slimmer condensed. A “Standard” width cut joined the pack in 2021. These three cuts were designed to work together, while maintaining their own singularity in a wide variety of design projects.
10 years ago in New Orleans, Garnier came across a metal typeface named Venus at John Fitzgerald’s letterpress studio. Fresh out of school, Garnier was visiting the workshop to print his first business cards. Fitzgerald only had four complete lead typefaces to compose the card, and Venus instantly captivated Garnier.
When Garnier returned to France, he began researching the genre in which his references evolved, and took inspiration to create his own interpretation. This creation features traits that are unique to Garnier’s design intentions: a large x-height, a robust “Regular” cut, and generally low contrast between thick and thin strokes. Most notably, it had sharp terminals; a distant echo of American Gothics, the sans-serif alphabets used by American sign painters. Garnier instilled most of his style in the Condensed series. While some of his references were very “industrial,” in the sense that the O’s are flat-sided, Garnier gave Mars a handcrafted appearance, with elliptical O’s, rather than rectangular ones.
Mars’ unique aesthetics stem from its singular drawing logic and its shape progression across four widths: Condensed, Standard, SemiCondensed, and Extended. The uppercases almost follow a distinct design rule where every stroke has to be beveled. This feature is especially striking in its capital letters E, F, G, L, T, and Z. In the lowercase design, the stroke connections stand out. In its narrower width, they appear ultra-smooth, while in wider widths, they adopt an angular character with a distinctive two-stroke ductus. Many glyphs in Mars share flared terminals as a design feature. These stroke endings are visible in c, e, f, g, s, y, C, G, J, S, 2, 3, 9. A discerning user also ought to notice the trapezoidal shape of the i and j dots.
Font release campaign visuals by Jessica Coifman.
Models: Almaz Papatakis, David Jeannot and Octave Lauret.
Models: Almaz Papatakis, David Jeannot and Octave Lauret.
Formats
Static (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2)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.