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Basil

Basil

by Karandash
Individual Styles from $0.00
Complete family of 6 fonts: $69.95
Basil Font Family was designed by Vassil Kateliev and published by Karandash. Basil contains 6 styles and family package options.

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About Basil Font Family


A mix between tradition and innovation, Basil is a unique humanist slab serif well suitable for broad range of design projects - editorial, logotype, poster, etc. With its tall x-height and generous internal spaces, the type family was especially designed with legibility in mind and is well suitable for body text at small sizes. In the same time Basil is equally able as titling and headline font due to numerous distinctive visual features that shape its attractive appearance. A true workhorse, packed with lots of OpenType features and full multilingual support, the type family consisting of six weights, with Regular available for free! Basil type family received Special Mention in Cyrillic text Typeface category at 7th International Type Design Competition for non-Latin typefaces - Granshan 2014. It also was exhibited at New Bulgarian Typography exhibition part of Sofia Design week 2013 and then took part in several travelling exhibitions.

Designers: Vassil Kateliev

Publisher: Karandash

Foundry: Karandash

Design Owner: Karandash

MyFonts debut: Jun 26, 2014

Basil

About Karandash

Karandash is a small independent type design studio, based in Varna, Bulgaria. It was established in 2010 by designer Vassil Kateliev, focused in designing high quality body and display typefaces for Eastern Europe, and is especially interested in developing Cyrillic typesets.

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