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Transat

Transat

by Typetanic Fonts
Individual Styles from $29.00
Complete family of 10 fonts: $119.00
Transat Font Family was designed by Gregory Shutters and published by Typetanic Fonts. Transat contains 10 styles and family package options.

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About Transat Font Family


Transat is a geometric sans serif typeface, with caps inspired by Art Deco signage — found inside the “Gare Maritime” (literally “sea station”) ocean liner terminals in both Le Havre and Cherbourg, France, in the early 1930s. The name “Transat” is the common shortening of “Compagnie Générale Transatlantique,” the company that operated majestic ocean liners like the SS Normandie out of Le Havre from 1862–1974. (Transat also has a more rational text-friendly companion font, "

Transat Text

") Transat includes many OpenType features, such as ligatures (ff/ft/fft), small capitals, case sensitive forms, stylistic alternates, arbitrary fractions, and a full complement of proportional, tabular, and oldstyle figures. Transat is released in 5 weights plus including optically-corrected obliques.

Designers: Gregory Shutters

Publisher: Typetanic Fonts

Foundry: Typetanic Fonts

Original Foundry: unknown

Design Owner: Typetanic Fonts

MyFonts debut: Mar 5, 2013

Transat

About Typetanic Fonts

Greg Shutters is a Chicago-based designer specializing in type and lettering and began releasing commercial typefaces under the Typetanic Fonts label in 2013. Greg has a certificate in typeface design from the “Type@Cooper” extended program at The Cooper Union, and his typefaces have won numerous awards from The One Club / ADC, the Society of Typographic Arts (STA 100), Communication Arts, and Type Directors Club. Type Directors Club also named Greg as one of their “Ascenders” in 2019, which recognizes the work of designers under 35 years of age who show remarkable achievement in typography, type design, and lettering.

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