Raum
Raum is a display typeface published by Sharp Type in 1961, designed by Justin Sloane, Huw Williams and Calvin Kwok. It comes in 7 weights, from Thin to Black, with italics. It is one of 45 typefaces from Sharp Type in the Type.lol catalog, 2 of them display.
From the foundry
An experimental display typeface that pushes the contemporaneous display inktrap motif into uncharted territory. Part of the Hauss & Raum duet, Raum represents destruction and psychedelic retrofuturism — the bombastically deontological counterpart to Hauss's utilitarian restraint.
Published by Sharp Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- display
- Weights
- Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold, Black
- Released
- 1961