Gt-super.com Website Review

GT Super is the result of an extensive investigation into display serif typefaces from the 1970s and 80s. It captures their expressive nature and translates it into a well balanced system of Text and Display styles. It all started with a newspaper clipping that Swiss designer Urs Lehni showed to Noël Leu. Fascinated by the simple beauty of the lowercase a, with pointed terminals instead of the usual serif at the top, Noël began drawing the typeface. This idea of opulent curves and a constant flow was carried throughout the entire design. The original newspaper advertisement that started the project. Below, Kommen Sie jetzt zu uns, wenn Sie später für ihr Baugeld We later found out that the typeface used in this advertisement, shown above, was some version of Perpetua Super — which lead us to GT Super’s name. The 1960s & 70s saw many such titling serifs created for the then-new phototype technology, and oftentimes quite different designs were marketed under the same name. Some of our favorite typefaces of that time are all the different versions of Perpetua, Trooper Roman, and Times Modern. A version of Perpetua Bold used for Buick ads. Perpetua Super (origin unknown, carried by Lettergraphics) and Perpetua Black by Facsimile Fonts (probably copied from Headliners International). Trooper Roman was designed by Dave Trooper in the late 60s. Trooper’s influence on GT Super is most notable in its alternate versions of the g and y. Together with a matching alternate a they are available in GT Super as stylistic alternates. Times Modern is another example of a high-contrast display typeface from that era. Designed as a more narrow titling version of the original Times typeface, it features a much taller x-height and shorter descenders, enabling ultra-tight vertical typesetting. Noël was inspired by these proportions when designing the Display subfamily. Iconic cover design template for German publishing house Edition Suhrkamp by Willy Fleckhaus, using Times Modern.