Kumlien Pro
Kumlien Pro is a serif typeface published by Canada Type in 2011, designed by Akke Kumlien and Patrick Griffin. It comes in 3 weights, from Book to Bold, with italics. It is one of 176 typefaces from Canada Type in the Type.lol catalog, 40 of them serif.
From the foundry
Kumlien Pro K umlien Pro is the revival and expansion of a typeface designed in 1943 by Akke Kumlien, the famed Swedish book designer, poet, author, painter and arts materials expert. Being the first major Swedish typeface to be designed in over a century, it became an instant hit with publishing houses in Sweden at the time. To this very day it remains revered as one of very few historic and original Swedish typefaces. Transitional in overall appearance and idiosyncratic in detail, Kumlien Pro
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- serif
- Weights
- Book, Medium, Bold
- Released
- 2011