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Mars Extended

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TRAINING SESSION
The 2024 Paris Olympic weightlifting competitions featured some incredible performances, with athletes setting new records and achieving historic milestones. She won gold by setting a new Olympic snatch record at 117kg and finishing with a total of 262kg. This victory was particularly significant as it was the first Olympic weightlifting gold for the USA since Tara Nott’s win in 2000, breaking a 24-year drought for the country in this event​. Reeves’ triumph in Paris not only solidified her as a rising star in the sport but also highlighted her remarkable mental toughness, as she managed to surpass her competitors, including Mari Leivis Sanchez from Colombia, who took silver with a total of 257kg​.
In the men’s competitions, Lasha Talakhadze from Georgia once again displayed his dominance in the sport. The reigning Olympic champion in the +102kg weight class lifted a total of 470kg, which included a clean and jerk of 255kg and a snatch of 215kg. His performance in Paris was yet another demonstration of his strength and consistency, as he extended his undefeated streak at the Olympics​. His total lift of 470kg not only earned him another gold medal but also reaffirmed his position as one of the greatest weightlifters in history. This victory, however, was not just about his success; it marked an important moment for Georgia, reinforcing their legacy in weightlifting.
The Paris 2024 Olympics also saw some exciting firsts and close battles. Gor Minasyan from Bahrain won a bronze medal in the men’s +102kg category, marking the country’s first-ever Olympic medal in weightlifting​. Additionally, the battle for the silver medal in the Women’s 71kg was particularly close, with Sanchez finishing just 5kg behind gold medalist Reeves. This tight competition made the event even more thrilling for fans, showcasing the high level of performance across all participants​. These moments, along with numerous personal bests and records broken, made the 2024 Paris Olympic weightlifting events some of the most memorable in recent history.
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The weightlifting events at the 2024 Paris Olympics were marked by thrilling competitions, standout performances, and record-breaking moments across multiple weight classes. In the men’s +102kg category, Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadze won his fourth consecutive Olympic gold, lifting a total of 470kg with a snatch of 215kg and a clean and jerk of 255kg. Armenia’s Varazdat Lalayan secured silver with a combined lift of 467kg, and Gor Minasyan, representing Bahrain, took bronze with a 461kg total, making history as Bahrain’s first Olympic medal in weightlifting​.
New Olympic Snatch Record
International SUMMER & WINTER Athens 1896 EVERY FOUR YEARS Pure Amateur
Full-time Athlete
Olympic
Record
Broken
① Olivia Reeves (USA) 117kg ↗ ❷ Mari L. Sanchez (GE) 257kg ✧ L. Talakhadze (GE) 255kg ★ Gor Minasyan (AM) +102 kg
Strength Ratio

Information

Design

Alaric Garnier

Release Date

2024-11-12

Team

Charly Derouault
Quentin Schmerber
Hugues Gentile
Marion Sendral
Michele Brianza

Version

3.001

About 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.

Formats

Static (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2)

Language support

Acheron, Achinese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Alekano, Aleut, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri, Amis, Anaang, Andaandi, Dongolawi, Anuta, Ao Naga, Aragonese, Arbëreshë Albanian, Arvanitika Albanian, Asháninka, Ashéninka Perené, Asu (Tanzania), Atayal, Balinese, Bari, Basque, Batak Dairi, Batak Karo, Batak Mandailing, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Bemba (Zambia), Bena (Tanzania), Bikol, Bislama, Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo, Bosnian, Breton, Buginese, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Caribbean Hindustani, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Aymara, Central Kurdish, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chiga, Chiltepec Chinantec, Chokwe, Chuukese, Cimbrian, Cofán, Congo Swahili, Cook Islands Māori, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dehu, Dutch, Eastern Arrernte, Eastern Oromo, Embu, English, Ese Ejja, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, Garifuna, Ga’anda, German, Gheg Albanian, Gilbertese, Gooniyandi, Gourmanchéma, Guadeloupean Creole French, Gusii, Haitian, Hani, Hiligaynon, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Huastec, Hungarian, Icelandic, Iloko, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Jamaican Creole English, Japanese, Javanese, Jola-Fonyi, K'iche', Kabuverdianu, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba (Kenya), Kaonde, Karelian, Kashubian, Kekchí, Kenzi, Mattokki, Khasi, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kituba (DRC), Kongo, Konzo, Kuanyama, Kven Finnish, Kölsch, Ladin, Ladino, Latgalian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luba-Lulua, Lule Sami, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Luxembourgish, Makhuwa, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Makwe, Malagasy, Malaysian, Maltese, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Manx, Maore Comorian, Maori, Mapudungun, Marshallese, Matsés, Mauritian Creole, Meriam Mir, Meru, Minangkabau, Mirandese, Mohawk, Montenegrin, Munsee, Murrinh-Patha, Mwani, Mískito, Naga Pidgin, Ndonga, Neapolitan, Ngazidja Comorian, Niuean, Nobiin, Nomatsiguenga, North Ndebele, Northern Kurdish, Northern Qiandong Miao, Northern Sami, Northern Uzbek, Norwegian, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Ojitlán Chinantec, Orma, Oroqen, Palauan, Paluan, Pampanga, Papantla Totonac, Papiamento, Pedi, Picard, Pichis Ashéninka, Piemontese, Pijin, Pintupi-Luritja, Pipil, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Purepecha, Quechua, Romansh, Rotokas, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Samoan, Sango, Sangu (Tanzania), Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Seri, Seselwa Creole French, Shambala, Shawnee, Shipibo-Conibo, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Soninke, South Ndebele, Southern Aymara, Southern Qiandong Miao, Southern Sami, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sranan Tongo, Standard Estonian, Standard Latvian, Standard Malay, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tahitian, Taita, Tedim Chin, Tetum, Tetun Dili, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tokelau, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Tonga (Zambia), Tosk Albanian, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Uab Meto, Ume Sami, Upper Guinea Crioulo, Upper Sorbian, Venetian, Veps, Võro, Walloon, Walser, Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa, Waray (Philippines), Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, West Central Oromo, Western Abnaki, Western Frisian, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xhosa, Yanesha', Yao, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Yucateco, Zapotec, Zulu, Záparo

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

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OpenType Features

Production Type ships OpenType fonts with built-in features such as ligatures, alternates, or pictograms. Here are some of the most important features. To view a comprehensive list of features, please refer to the PDF specimen.

Case-Sensitive Forms

[CASE] ¡SENSITIVE! «MUSCLES» ­

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Slashed Zero

0123456789 ­

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Tabular Figures

H0123456789 ­

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Oldstyle Figures

H0123456789 ­

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Superscript

H012345679 ­

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Scientific Inferiors

H012345679 ­

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Numerators

H012345679 ­

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Denominators

H012345679 ­

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Fractions

1/4 1/2 3/4 ­

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Ordinals

2a 2o No. ­

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Stylistic Set 1

012345678910 ­

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Stylistic Set 2

012345678910 ­

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Stylistic Set 3

<>+−×÷=± ­

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Stylistic Set 4

abcdef ­

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Stylistic Set 5

ROWING JORDAN ­

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    14 styles: ExtraLight, ExtraLight Italic, Light, Light Italic, SemiLight, SemiLight Italic, Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic

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