Lucifer
Lucifer features contemporary aesthetics while being deeply rooted in a lesser-known part of Swiss design history. The typeface has an almost menacing appearance. Its sharp, expressive serifs and overall organic look are inspired by the hand-lettering of Swiss designer Robert Stöcklin in his poster for the Schweizer Mustermesse Basel in 1924. The distinct formal quality of his design is quite different from what is usually associated with Swiss type design due to the modernist design movement known as “International Typographic Style” or “Swiss Style” which pushed many noteworthy designers like Stöcklin into the background. Lucifer gives recognition to the lesser-known work of Robert Stöcklin as a type family that features many of the unique visual qualities of its reference material while being optimised for the demands of contemporary design professionals. Lucifer’s expressive aesthetic excels in wordmarks, headlines, and poster designs. At the same time, the type system works just as well in various kinds of running text, which makes it a respectable, unique workhorse type family. Lucifer consists of 8 styles, which are Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold accompanied by their respective italics and is also available as a variable font. It supports a wide range of Latin-based scripts, including Vietnamese and Pinyin (Mandarin Chinese), to ensure its usability in a broader international context.
Published by Nguyen Gobber
- Classification
- mono
- Weights
- Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold
- Variable font
- Yes
- Released
- 2022