Tungsten
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- Designer(s)
- Hoefler & Frere-Jones
- Foundry(ies)
- Hoefler & Frere-Jones
- Release Year
- 2009
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Classification
- Sans Serif
- Original Format
- Digital
- Distributor(s)
- Hoefler & Frere-Jones
- Tags
- condensed
Background
Arriving on the Intarwebz in the fall of 2009, Tungsten is described by it’s New York-based creators “ Hoefler & Frere-Jones •€” as a “compact and sporty sans serif that’s disarming instead of pushy “ not just loud, but persuasive.•
Tungsten resides in a genre of typeface, colorfully coined ‘Modern Gaspipe’ “ owing to it•s use of long straight lines and curves that, when brought together in a glyph, loosely resemble plumbing.
OpenType versions of Tungsten contain H&FJ’s Latin-X® character set. This means that the font can be applied to copy in over 100 languages throughout the world.
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