![]() ![]() The italics are a combination of humanist italic forms, seen in the lowercase italic q, and the obliques of industrial or grotesque sans-serifs, seen in the lowercase italic a, which retains two storeys, unlike in other humanist sans-serif typefaces like FF Scala Sans and Gill Sans, where the a has a single storey italic. The lowercase a and g follow the old style model of having two storeys. The uppercase has a wide proportion, and the terminals not being parallel to the baseline provide a sense of animation. Meier described Syntax as being a sans-serif face modeled on the Renaissance serif typeface, similar to Sabon or Bembo. In 1989, the original foundry metal design was digitized by Adobe, which also expanded the family to include bold and ultrabold weights, resulting in a font family of 4 romans and 1 italic (in lightest weight) fonts. In the period 1968–1972, Meier worked on additional weights and variations to the Syntax typeface. The original drawings were done in 1954 first by writing the letters with a brush, then redrawing their essential linear forms, and finally adding balanced amounts of weight to the skeletons to produce optically monoline letterforms. It is believed to be the final face designed and released by D. Stempel Schriftgießerei ( type foundry) of Frankfurt am Main. ![]() ![]() Syntax is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Meier in 1968, and released in 1969 by the D.
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