Fonts

Syntax 


Syntax was a font created in 1969. I researched this as i was going to use a font from that year for my developed work. After researching it i didn't think it would look right even though it was from the year i'm interested in.


The syntax font family was designed by Hans Eduard Meier. Originally started with the sans-serif fonts,it was then expanded to include serif designs.
It was released in 1969 by d. Stempel Schriftgieberei the type foundry of Frankfurt am main. It was believed to be the final face designed by D.Stempel for foundry casting.


Original drawings were done in 1954, first by writing the letters with the brush, then redrawing their essential linear forms and finally adding balanced amounts of weight to the skeletons to produce optically monoline letterforms. Meier work on different weights and variations and in 1989 the metal design was digitzed by Adobe who then expanded the family to include bold and ultra bold weights resulting in the font having a family of 4 romans and 1 italic in the lightest weight fonts.


The syntax font was apparently described as similar to a renaissance serif called Bembo. The uppercase has a wide proportion and the terminals not being parallel to the baseline provide a combination and sense of animation.