Cabrio is a humanist sans serif type family that combines geometric shapes with subtle, but playful details of a script typeface. Letters with character as well as an overall compact appearance of the heavier weights lend Cabrio a strong recognisability, especially in larger sizes. Open letterforms and a large x-height make it a useful companion for both long copy and short texts. Cabrio makes a clear and professional impression and, paired with a human element, it offers a convincing solution for corporate designs and advertising.
CONCEPT SHOPPING
Benefits of Membership
OUTDOOR POOLS
A Wonderful Clubhouse
SUNDOWNERS 32
Atmospheric Rooftop
THE RABBIT HOLE
Driving to the Beach
SUNSET SOUNDS
Everyday Casual Bite
EFFORTLESSNESS
Joyful and Energized
Collectables
Installation
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With a Desktop License, you can install the font software on a fixed number of computers and use it for graphics, print or products. You will receive OpenType (OTF) font files.
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With a Web License, you can use the font software on a website within the given page views. You will receive web font files (WOFF, WOFF2) for self hosting. These font formats can not be installed on your computer.
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Cabrio FamilyServer: 100 Created Products/Month€3,000.00Add matching Desktop license€300.00
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Cabrio BlackServer: 100 Created Products/Month€500.00Add matching Desktop license€50.00
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The design of a typeface can be approached from many angles with different tools and ingredients. Type is so versatile that every little ingredient influences its appearance. Whether you write words with a brush that translates a spontaneous feeling or whether one creates elegant strokes with a broad nib pen or whether you construct solid characters from geometric shapes, influences the way people perceive a text. It is therefore crucial to acknowledge these ingredients and their implications. This is the task of a type designer.
Designing Cabrio began with an experiment to combine geometric letterforms with the warmth of calligraphic elements. All of the characters follow predefined parameters and are constructed on a grid, while subtle humanistic elements are injected into them. A typeface should not look like a “Frankenstein”, stitched together from different pairs of arms, legs and ears (typographically speaking). Even when different ingredients are added, the result should remain homogenous and natural.
Some of the characters have specific stroke endings, particularly visible in a and e. These brush elements lend a certain warmth to the constructed framework. Finding just the appropriate amount of a humanist feel before the face turns casual did pose a certain challenge. The overall tonality was to remain serious and professional — something that is perhaps not achieved when all the terminals have brush-like endings. The solution turned out to be an interesting mix of pointed brush endings for a, e or t as well as vertical stroke endings as can be seen in C, G or s. In addition to these features, the architecture of several letters has a strong impact on the overall appearance: a diagonal cross-bar in e or a slightly crossed w. Design decisions like these as well as many others lend Cabrio a warm voice.
A lot of attention and care has been placed on the legibility of Cabrio: a typeface that can be successfully used in the development of corporate identities should work for all lengths of text across all sizes. The rhythm of character widths is a crucial factor to be carefully observed in trials of several cycles on screen as well as in print. Of course bolder weights should make a strong impression in headlines and logos. Legibility at smaller sizes is increased by opening up rounded shapes vertically, as has been done in C and G. This also lends them a certain dynamic.
More generally speaking, a purely constructed anatomy does not make a great typeface for reading, because geometric letters tend to be based on basic shapes that result in an overall wide appearance. In relation to each of the different weights, we paid careful attention to the overall character width: while lighter weights are slightly narrower than a full (mathematical) circle and therefore slightly more space-saving, bolder weights are slightly wider — the O is indeed very close to a mathematical circle. Bolder weights tend to be used in larger sizes more often, which is where the geometric appearance really shows. All of these decisions result in a multi talent with legibility preferences in the lighter weights as well as a strong character in bold display applications.
Given the origin of italic letterforms and based on the concept of Cabrio, it made a lot of sense to push its italics one step further into a humanist direction. The main feature of these italics are pointed brush terminals on some prominent characters such as m, n or h. In keeping with conventional italic shapes, we have equipped Cabrio italics with a one-storey a and a two-storey g. These tweaks result in a lively italic that lends a unique voice to emphasised words in any text.
The first sketches of Cabrio contained weights ranging from Light to Black. When testing this scope in trial layouts, it was clear that this family would easily endure a super-strong-heavy-weight. Special challenges arise with such extreme weights, because they require specific considerations that are not systematic. Typically, any design decision made within a type family has an impact on the entire visual system: several weights may be created in one phase to see if an approach works across the family. However, some decisions may not work out in extreme weights, i.e. considering bold stems in a limited space. For this reason we designed the “Poster” weight: a family member that is unique enough to stand on its own. One of the main differences in the Poster weight is the dot of the lowercase i: its unusual shape does not get in the way with tight line spacing.
Some of the early Renaissance typefaces of the fifteenth century such as those by Nicolas Jenson and Aldus Manutius, essentially a union of capitals inspired by Roman imperial inscriptions and of lowercase letters of a much-developed Carolingian minuscule, are considered humanist. The lowercase letters are a visual reflection of the tools that scribes used to write them, particularly visible in the humanist axis — the result of a hand holding a broad-nib pen at a specific angle. The first sans serif typefaces that are recognised as humanist today, appeared much later at the beginning of the twentieth century. They are inspired by Renaissance serif typefaces such as Garamond and are therefore very different in structure from other sans serif genres.
One of the most popular examples is probably Edward Johnston’s sans serif for the London Underground, introduced in 1916. This alphabet (simply referred to as Johnston) carries a strong influence of traditional serif typefaces and breaks with the conventional sans serif genre of that period known as grotesque. Grotesques from the late eighteenth century tend to have more squarish shapes. Some elements of Johnston are geometric in appearance: the capital O is a nearly-perfect circle, while the M, unlike Roman capitals, features perfectly vertical stems, not to forget the diamond-shaped dots of i and j. The lowercase g follows a three-storey design. With the intention for signage and orientation, Johnston’s alphabet did not have an italic companion. It was only later that his student Eric Gill turned the alphabet into a typeface and also used it as an example of his own Gill Sans, originally released in 1928.
Granby, released by Stephenson Blake in 1930 is influenced by Johnston’s underground alphabet. Perhaps the main difference is its two-storey g, influenced by handwriting. Instead of real italics, typical of the time, Granby is equipped with an oblique companion (letters that are slanted at an angle, but without change in letterform). Granby was available in several weights, including condensed widths, an inline style, and ‘Granby Elephant’ — an ultra-bold design as the name suggests.
These early ideas are appealing and somewhat align with the basic idea of bringing geometric shapes together with humanist elements, however, the design process of Cabrio took a different starting point. While Johnston marks the translation of serif type anatomy to a sans serif with geometric features, Cabrio began with a geometric skeleton improved by humanist elements. In the end it is a type system of multiple weights and styles conceived for a wide range of applications.
It is important to us to manufacture type that is well equipped with a decent language support with all the features necessary for excellent typographic work. In addition to a range of weights, this includes diacritics and different sets of figures for all sorts of layout and document applications. Let’s take a look under the hood.
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Since the earliest days of metal type, there have been variations of the same letter in a font. For the past twenty years you can switch between such alternates by selecting them in the OpenType feature panel. The use of specific alternates may have a significant impact on the overall appearance of a typeface, e.g. changing from a two-storey a to its single-storey version.
The Moon is 1/3 of the width of Earth
When you typeset a slash between figures to separate denominators and numerators, OpenType will automatically create a proper fraction.
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When figures are typeset in invoices, annual reports or any other table, you may want to use tabular figures. Unlike conventional proportional figures, all tabular figures have the same width, achieving a structured appearance in lists.
Distance to the sun is 8.3 light-minutes
Lining or proportional figures tend to stand out in a long text, similar to the effect that ALL-CAPS typesetting has. It is useful to switch to old-style figures that have smaller shapes with ascenders and descenders (similar to lowercase letters) and therefore fit seamlessly in any text.
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A subscript is a character that slightly sits below the baseline. They are used in formulas, mathematical expressions as well as in specifications of chemical compounds and isotopes, but may have many other uses as well. These characters are not simply ordinary characters reduced in size: to keep them visually consistent with the rest of the typeface, they are optically heavier than a proportionally scaled character.
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A superscript is a character that slightly sits above the baseline. It has the same weight and size like a subscript character. They are also used in formulas, mathematical expressions and text references, but may have many other uses as well.
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