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Syne

5 weights • Version 24 • On Google Fonts since 2020 • Popularity #235

Quick Summary

Styles

400-800

Weight Range

Variable axis

Languages / Subsets

About Syne Fonts

The Syne family was originally designed in 2017 for the Art Center "Synesthésie", based in Saint-Denis — a suburb of Paris. The Art Center aims to gather diverse artistic personalities in order to create new and enriching situations. Based on that idea, Syne is an exploration of atypical associations of weights and styles.

Syne Regular is the starting point of the family. It is quite an archetypal geometric sans-serif, giving the art center a practical asset for their daily use. When getting bolder, the typeface also gets wider, forcing radical graphic design choices.

Checkout the other two members of this heteroclite family: Syne Mono and Syne Tactile.

A Greek script designed by George Triantafyllakos has been added in March 2022.

Syne was conceptualized by Bonjour Monde and designed by Lucas Descroix with the help of Arman Mohtadji. To contribute, see gitlab.com/bonjour-monde/fonderie/syne-typeface

Who Designed Syne?

Bonjour Monde

Bonjour Monde is a working group looking into alternative processes in the field of visual creation. Functioning mostly through workshops and self-initiated experiments, they question tools, open and understand them in order to divert them from their initial function, in an infinite search for noise, error and happy accidents.

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Lucas Descroix

Lucas Descroix is a type and graphic designer who likes to draw shapes and build systems. After researching at the National Institute for Typographic Research in Nancy (Fr), he is now designing typefaces, books, posters and visual identities. You can also find him experimenting alternative tools and organizing workshops with Bonjour Monde.

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George Triantafyllakos

George Triantafyllakos holds a PhD in Participatory Design of Educational Software from the Computer Science Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. On September 2015 he started the Atypical type foundry. He has designed typefaces for the Greek Font Society. In 2017 he participated in the team of designers that won the competition for the design of the new visual identity of the National Library of Greece (George D. Matthiopoulos, Dimitris Papazoglou, George Triantafyllakos and Axel Peemöller). The same year he was a member of the jury committee of the Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards (ΕΒΓΕ 2017). On October 2019 he was awarded at the 11th GRANSHAN Type Design Competition for the design of the Dolce Noir type family.

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