Story
Brutalism is a divisive art form and bringing it to font design is always a challenge. However, Pramen is certainly not about anti-design or intentional ugliness. Vojtěch Říha was influenced by a 1970s hotel Thermal with a signage system by designer Jiří Rathouský.
Pramen features a visual tensions between rounded exterior and sharp interior of letterforms. Almost every intersection features a massive ink trap.Those two main principles give the font almost sculptural effect in heavier weights.The font also includes a set of alternative characters for lowercase and uppercase.
With six weights from ‘light’ to ‘black’, Pramen is firm and honest in the same way as many concrete icons. It is a universal display typeface for signage, magazines and logotypes.
Pramen was awarded at the European Design Awards in 2011.
Pramen is also available as Pramen Slab.
- Release
- 2014
- Design
- Vojtěch Říha
Styles
OTF
- Case Sensitive Forms
- case
- Standard Ligatures
- liga
- Lining Figures
- lnum
- Oldstyle Figures
- onum
- Tabular Figures
- tnum
- Tabular Oldstyle Figures
- tnum, onum
- Fractions
- frac
- Stylistic Set 1
- ss01