The Antenna™ design is a sans serif, rounded-end font family created by Cyrus Highsmith and released by Font Bureau in 2007. With carefully balanced strokes, it has a style to it that makes it ideal for 21st century publishing and advertising.
Cyrus Highsmith created the Antenna typeface with fairly simplistic appearance. However, on closer inspection it clearly has some intriguing features. The curves of the letters are matched across both lower case and uppercase characters, giving this typeface a very uniform feel. It contains European/East European characters with a full complement of Scandinavian and ligature characters. (A ligature character is where two letters of the alphabet are joined together and are often used in Germanic and Scandinavian languages.)
Because the
Antenna design does not feature any descenders or ascenders – all numerals are of even height and are the same height as the capitals. This makes the numerical characters highly suitable for spreadsheet use. Seven weights of the
Antenna font family are available in four widths – all of which have an accompanying italic set.
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Weights of AntennaThe Antenna font family is quite extensive, so it has lent itself to a wide variety of publishing applications. Magazines and newspapers are where the Antenna font family is most commonly seen, but since there are so many weights and styles available (currently 56), this typeface has made an appearance in many advertising campaigns and headlines in online media. Newspapers and magazines such as the San Francisco Chronicle, Sports Illustrated and Kenya’s Daily Nation all use the Antenna design to great effect both in their headlines and content.