Compasse
Compasse is a semi-condensed sans-serif family designed by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, and the whole family consists of 12 styles: six weights from Thin to ExtraBold and their matching Italics.
The range of styles provides flexibility for title, headline, and body text. And the large x-heights increases legibility and readability.
The basic skeleton of their letterform was not designed over-modularly but moderately semi-modularly (adjusted by a designer’s experience). Therefore the typical artificiality and unnaturalness which come from module-design do not exist in this family.
The sophisticated letterform and its universal, neutral, and standard design make it possible to be used across a wide range of applications in all media, all purposes.
Compasse supports almost all European languages: Western, Central, South Eastern Europeans, and Afrikaans. And superior figures, inferior figures, denominators, numerators, and fractions can be accessed by using OpenType features.
The range of styles provides flexibility for title, headline, and body text. And the large x-heights increases legibility and readability.
The basic skeleton of their letterform was not designed over-modularly but moderately semi-modularly (adjusted by a designer’s experience). Therefore the typical artificiality and unnaturalness which come from module-design do not exist in this family.
The sophisticated letterform and its universal, neutral, and standard design make it possible to be used across a wide range of applications in all media, all purposes.
Compasse supports almost all European languages: Western, Central, South Eastern Europeans, and Afrikaans. And superior figures, inferior figures, denominators, numerators, and fractions can be accessed by using OpenType features.