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C-Nation

C-Nation™

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C-Nation Font Family was designed by Marit Angenita Otto and published by URW Type Foundry. C-Nation contains 1 styles.

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About C-Nation Font Family


Marit Otto about C-Nation: The building typeface. Although the 70ties were very liberating and progressive, still girls played mainly with dolls and sweet things and boys with all kinds of challenging stuff. They did all sorts of basic scientific experiments in mini labs and of course built cool things with Meccano building sets. As a girl I was perfectly happy with the toys I had access to. But at the same time I was very curious about all the adventure toys and discoveries my brother did. It also made me wonder why the grown up people thought that our world could be separated so easily by separating our toys in pink and blue sections. At this day of age Meccano is probably hopelessly old fashioned and far to manual. Children of today are fed by fast images and cool animations on screen, they learn, play, communicate and relax in the same space, the digital space. The special feature of Meccano was that even though it was very basic there was the promise you could create anything. It might even contribute to a logical mind. The typeface I designed refers to the Meccano feel. It is a creative typeface. A bit masculine and bold looking perhaps but after the first impression a subtle and refined female touch is revealed. It has links to architecture and associations with metal constructions like ‘The Eiffel Tower’ and (old railway) bridges. I am convinced that we all think of that as very charming man-made objects.

Designers: Marit Angenita Otto

Publisher: URW Type Foundry

Foundry: URW Type Foundry

Design Owner: FontForum

MyFonts debut: null

C-Nation™ is a trademark of URW++.

About URW Type Foundry

URW Type Foundry GmbH is a German company with a long and rich history in type design and engineering. As the direct successor of digital type pioneer URW GmbH, it continues to design and develop first class typefaces and custom projects. URW Type Foundry GmbH is renowned for a comprehensive library, a specialization in global font technology, and its overall role in type development.

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