- FF Scala Sans
Infobox font
name = FF Scala Sans
style = Sans-serif
classifications = Humanist
date = 1992
creator =Martin Majoor
foundry = FontShop International|FF Scala Sans is a humanist
sans-serif typeface designed in by Dutch designerMartin Majoor in 1993 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It was designed as a companion to Majoor's earlier serif old style typefaceFF Scala , designed in 1990.Like Eric Gill's 1927–30 design
Gill Sans and Hans Eduard Meier's typeface Syntax, both upper and lower case are structually modeled on serif old style faces. The lowercase roman a and g are two-story. FF Scala Sans italics are true italics, not sloped roman. The lowercase a, e, v and y are particularly calligraphic. FF Scala Sans is a very complete sans-serif in its inclusion of true small capitals, lining and non-lining (old style figures) and many ligatures. In 1993 an additional condensed width of the typeface was released. The typefaces are available through Font Shop International.Bibliography
*Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. "Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History." Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
*FontFont Catalogue. Font Shop International: 2002.
*Middendorp, Jan. "Dutch Type." 010 Publishers: 2004. ISBN 90-6540-460-1.External links
* [http://www.fontshop.com/fontfeed/archives/dolly_for_finley.cfm Uses of FF Scala and FF Scala Sans]
* [http://www.typotheque.com/articles/my_type_design_philosophy.html Martin Majoor on his design philosophy]
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