Daisie Alfaro

Geometric, stylish, and not quite a stencil face: Glance Sans is the urban alter ego of Glance Slab—a strong-willed sans-serif with no frills but a few unique character traits.

Glance Sans follows the design principle of nonjoining parts that made Glance Slab successful. Some strokes may not connect to their stems, creating visible gaps and thus, a dynamic impression of balance and movement. However, Glance Sans has a calmer appearance due to the lack of detached serifs. If Glance Slab’s home territory are large, crowded stadiums and massive sports events, Glance Sans prefers streetball courts, well-used skate parks, and underground clubs. It also adapts to urban work environments from finance to high-tech. Whenever a more toned-down look is called for while retaining the elegance of an athlete, Glance Sans is ready to roll.

In the city environment, versatility is key. That’s why Glance Sans sports 7 weights as well as a complete set of italics. These are not just sloped romans but individually drawn letterforms, subtly referencing classic italic construction for more effective emphasis. Among the 600+ glyphs of Glance Sans, you’ll find goodies such as six sets of figures, circled numbers, circled arrows, and all kinds of currency symbols in two stylistic versions. Glance Sans is a great tool for industrial and high-tech branding, for wayfinding systems in contemporary or modernist architecture, for corporate identities in arts, crafts, medicine, culture, and education, and for all kinds of sports-themed design.

Both members of the Glance superfamily are easily and effectively combinable; both are able to stand on their own feet. With its powerful italics, you might opt for Glance Sans as your text typeface and use Glance Slab for headlines. Or you set large, clean, display-sized lines in Glance Sans and spice them up with a bit of sportive Glance Slab. It’s up to you to decide how to bring out the best in both of them.

JT Collect by OGJ is a Grotesk applied at global sportswear brand NIKE.

Designer and Art Director Interview with Redwan El-Harrak (for Sang Bleu), who played a central role at the Nike LDN Capsule Collection — designed for the 2019 London Marathon.

OGJ: Welcome Red, thanks for taking time for an interview regarding the excellent job you did at the Nike project! Please tell us more about why you chose Collect and how you worked with it.

RED: No problem and thank you for the kind words. Collect was an easy choice to make and was a design decision made pretty quickly actually. The breadth of the Collect family meant that was a lot of different personalities to pick from and I instantly felt that the Max style had a certain energy that aligned perfectly to the Nike brand — in a way it felt like it always belonged to that world once I saw it in the design. The Max Italic in particular added some movement with its inclusion.

Both the Max and Max Italic weights were used for the wordmark and during the design process Maxime Büchi and I realised that the symmetrical N leant itself cleverly as a connector for LDN and RUN.

In the end the concept leant heavily on Collect, with the typeface doing a lot of the work.

OGJ: Can you tell us more about the illustration concept?

RED: Well the illustration was kind of the first starting point of the concept. In my mind I wanted to show London as a deconstructed landscape with the fragments that could fill a runner’s environment, which is experienced in almost a distorted sense due to being on the move. So we have architectural scraps of Big Ben and other quintessential monuments of London sitting on top of humble newsagents and chicken shops.

I knew straight away who I wanted to commission with Stijn Jonckheere and his style essentially being the baseplate of the concept.

Once we had that part of the puzzle figured out, that’s when we moved onto the type work and where Collect also really helped. So on one hand the typeface felt very connected to the Nike brand but also sat well with Stijn’s work and he did an excellent job integrating and embedding it as a graphic device into his airy yet industrial aesthetic.

OGJ: Do you see the other weights being able to work to give different personalities?

RED: Absolutely. It was the biggest draw for me in the first place as part of the design process — it’s really useful to have a type family such as the Collect on hand as it allows me to test ‘personas’ out quickly; changing the weights, playing with the tracking and typesetting etc in order to find the right feeling within some set parameters.

I can see it being applied in a multitude of ways. Ranging from very functional contexts right up to more display led use in editorials and posters. Then you have the possibilities of packaging, branding and so on – if anything kudos to you Oliver for creating such a great family.

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Pair JT Collect with a condensed cut of the Trade Gothic.

With the Caslon.

Pairs also very well with a traditional Chinese, Japanese or Arabic type.

Get to know Norman Fat a new version of our best seller Norman, elegant and fashion forward. This new condensed high contrast and heavy weight serif font is based on expansion giving a sense of self confidence. The oblique ax was specially added to get a contemporary and innovative sense. 

Norman Fat is young and idealist, he has a distinctive sense of style. A complete set of ligatures and stylistic alternates is included, this will help the designer to customize and give a special look to any layout. 

We recommend to use it for big title, magazine, editorial purposes and display. 

Norman Fat Family contains 2 styles, Regular and Italic, both fonts have another version a bit heavier called Regular 2 and Italic 2.

Enchantee feels equally charming and elegant. This stunning script font is a stylish homage to classic calligraphy. It features a varying baseline, smooth lines, gorgeous glyphs and stunning alternates. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the hearty glyphs and swashes with ease It also features a wealth of special features including alternate glyphs and ligatures.

Kiddie Love is a lovely display font that radiates charm. It features gorgeous hearts in each letter which give it an incredibly romantic feel. this font suitable for valentine day poster, logo, t shirt, event banner and etc. you can use this font for any design, apparel, kids logo, logo type, with many swash for make your design awesome.

feature :

• Kiddie Love Uppercase
• Kiddie Love Number and Punctuation
• Kiddie Love Multilingual
• Kiddie Love Swash

Rompies is a modern condensed font, designed specifically for display. Rompies has thick strokes of letterforms and tight letterspacing to emphasizes the legibility and showing the unique letter-shape combinations. This font is an all-caps font that combines the lowercase as the uppercase that gives flexibility and decrease the negative space.

Rompies equipped with a bunch of ligatures and alternates that makes this font so playfully to mix and match and get the modern typographic design. Perfect for the headline, menu, logotype, labels, signage, quote, modern poster, urban poster, sports themes, apparel, and many more!

Featured :

• Uppercase
• Small caps
• Numbers
• Symbols
• Accented characters
• Stylistic alternates
• Ligatures

The Overcook is a free style font that has the characteristics of street art that shows freedom and is filled with unique characters

Features : • Character Set A-Z • Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) • Accents (Multilingual characters) • Ligature • Alternate

There it is! I really hope you enjoy it