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Description

Lucifer is an expressive serif typeface rooted in a lesser-known part of Swiss design history. It draws inspiration from the hand-lettering of Swiss designer Robert Stöcklin, featured in his 1924 poster for the Schweizer Mustermesse Basel. With its organic forms and sharp terminals, Lucifer has an almost menacing presence, capturing the distinctive qualities of its historical reference in a type system refined for contemporary design. Its striking character lends itself particularly well to wordmarks, titles, and posters, while its balanced proportions make it suitable for running text. Lucifer comes as a variable font or in eight styles: Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold, each with a corresponding italic.

Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
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Technical Information
Font Name

Lucifer

Version

1.005

Style(s)

Regular, Regular Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, SemiBold, SemiBold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic + Variable

Design

Nguyen Gobber

Production

Nguyen Gobber, Schriftlabor

Funding

Pro Helvetia, Swiss Art Council

Release Year

2022 (Version 1.0)
Soon (Version 1.1)

Number of Glyphs

729 (Upright), 734 (Italic)

Language Support

Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Chinese (Pinyin), Colognian, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Guarani, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jju, Jola, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Meru, Mohawk, Morisyen, Nigerian Pidgin, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Northern Sotho, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rukiga, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian (Latin), Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swahili (Congo-Kinshasa), Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vietnamese, Vunjo, Walloon, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu

Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Chinese (Pinyin), Colognian, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Guarani, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jju, Jola, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Meru, Mohawk, Morisyen, Nigerian Pidgin, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Northern Sotho, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rukiga, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian (Latin), Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swahili (Congo-Kinshasa), Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vietnamese, Vunjo, Walloon, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu

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OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
Book design, visual identities, and typefaces for cultural and research contexts by Nguyen Gobber, a Swiss-Austrian graphic design practice and type foundry based in Vienna. Grafikdesign Studio Wien
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