Ratio Modern
Ratio Modern is a serif typeface published by Canada Type, designed by Friedrich Kleukens and Patrick Griffin. It comes in 2 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
Ratio Modern D esigned in 1923 by Friedrich Kleukens for the Stempel foundry, Ratio was one of the first metal faces to bring the Didone genre to the forefront of industrial mass publishing as a headline and magazine face. Though essentially modern in construct, Ratio incorporates some oldstyle and transitional traits, managing to summarize the European evolution of this particular aesthetic. This is evident in its shaped serifs, soft roundings, an elegantly subdued italic, sensible variations o
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- serif
- Weights
- Book, Bold