Vagebond
Credits
- Designer(s)
- Rene Verkaart
- Foundry(ies)
- Characters Font Foundry
- Release Year
- 2003
- Country of Origin
- Netherlands
- Classification
- Sans Serif, Geometric Sans
- Original Format
- Digital
- Distributor(s)
- MyFonts
- Tags
- computer, decorative, extended, futuristic, mechanical, minimal, monoline, narrow, outline, rounded, sans-serif, square, techno, tube, wide
Background
Vagebond is a monoline family in three widths, Condensed ©, Normal (N), and Extended (XT). With Vagebond I was inspired by a very old television I once saw on a junkyard. I wanted to create a typeface with round edges that would fit within the 4 × 3 proportion of the screen. It had to be monoline, because that gives it a very simplistic and minimalistic look.
Having created the XT width I felt it needed the both complementing widths to make it complete.
The Condensed version, for me, is the funky rounded version of the DIN. I love DIN, but it sometimes feels just a bit to ‘normed’ for me. Vagebond C brings in a bit more personality.
Although Vagebond looks kinda ‘oldstyle’, it works very well in futuristic designs. It feels best in combination with a super futuristic 3d object.
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