Sancoale Contrast is a high-contrast sans in 48 styles for fashion and beauty brands, magazines, hospitality and packaging: work that should feel refined rather than loud. Firm stems, hairline curves and the clarity of a sans, in eight weights, three widths and an italic for every style.
Sancoale began as a clean, even-stroked sans. Sancoale Gothic added a measured amount of stroke modulation. Sancoale Contrast takes that idea all the way: the stems stay firm, while the curves and joins thin to fine hairlines. The result catches the light like a display serif, but keeps the open, plain structure of a sans.
There are eight weights, from a delicate Thin to a dramatic Black, in three widths. Cond is for tight headlines and narrow columns, the standard width is for everyday setting, and Ext is for logos, wordmarks and signage. Every style has an italic, which makes 48 fonts in all.
The lighter weights shine at large sizes, where the hairlines are at their most striking. Book and Regular hold up in short texts, menus and captions. Bold and Black bring real presence to posters, covers and packaging.
Because Sancoale, Sancoale Gothic and Sancoale Contrast are built on the same bones, they work together without effort. Set a headline in Contrast Black, a subhead in Gothic and the body copy in Sancoale, and the page still reads as one voice.
Sancoale Contrast was made with fashion and beauty brands, magazines, hospitality, packaging and invitations in mind: anywhere a headline should feel refined rather than loud.
The fonts include small caps (with caps to small caps), titling capitals, swash and stylistic alternates, standard and discretionary ligatures, historical forms with the long s, oldstyle and tabular figures, fractions, superiors and inferiors, and they support 302 Latin-script languages.
A variable font that spans Sancoale, Sancoale Gothic and Sancoale Contrast across weight, width and contrast is on the way.