Red Circle (typeface)

Red Circle (typeface)

Infobox font
name = Red Circle


style = Sans-serif
classifications = Geometric Sans-serif
releasedate = 2006
creator = Harold Lohner
foundry = Harold Fonts

Red Circle is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Harold Lohner and based upon the c. 1930 lettering used in packaging and advertising for the range of A&P's Eight O'Clock, Red Circle, and Bokar brands of whole bean arabica coffees.

Red Circle is an all uppercase typeface exhibiting the geometric exploration of the Art Deco period. While having an overall rectilinear structure, circular forms are prominent in the characters A, B, D, M, N, and R. The lettering bears comparison with Georg Trump's City typeface. Exterior corners are rounded, and cross strokes extend left of the stem in characters A, B, E, H, K, P, and R. The characters M and N take the form of Carolingian minuscule characters m and n similar to the same characters in Herbert Bayer's 1927 experimental universal typeface Architype Bayer.

Lohner offers the face as a free font for the Mac and Windows operating systems.

References

*Fleischmann, Gerd. "Bauhaus Typographie." Oktagon Stuttgart: 1995. ISBN 3-927789-80-1.
*Meggs, Philip. B and Alston W. Purvis. "History of Graphic Design." Wiley; 2005. ISBN 0471699020.

External links

* [http://www.haroldsfonts.com/redcircle.html Red Circle on Harold Fonts website]


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