Grus

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Credits

Designer(s)
Seth Labenz, Roy Rub, Topos Graphics
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Release Year
2009
Country of Origin
United States
Classification
Sans Serif, Square Gothic
Original Format
Digital
Distributor(s)
T.26
Tags
contemporary, folded, origami

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Grus was created by Seth Labenz and Roy Rub of Topos Graphics in 2009. Seth and Roy were inspired to create Grus by the Japanese tradition of giving a Senbazuru “ a thousand paper cranes held together by string. This tradition is based on an ancient Japanese legend that promises a wish by a crane to anyone who folds 1,000 origami cranes. It was designed to be a display typeface, ideal for rendering words worth 1,000 cranes.

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Last edited by Jason Santa Maria on December 11, 2009, 06:35pm EST

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