Ramiro Espinoza’s Winco family can be labelled a humanist sans-serif; but in spirit it is more closely related to that rather rare typeface category called ‘glyphic’ or ‘incise’.

Glyphic faces occupy a place roughly half-way between seriffed renaissance book faces and sans-serifs. Instead of serifs, these types have flared strokes, or, analysed the other way around, are tapered in the middle. This characteristic is generally seen as a reference to letters carved into stone, hence the names ‘glyphic’ and ‘incise’. The proportions are generally humanist, i.e., closer related to those of old style and renaissance book type than to the more mechanic construction of the industrial and geometric sans-serifs made popular by modernist graphic design.

While conceiving Winco, Ramiro Espinoza studied the work of the masters of postwar book cover design: Helmut Salden, Boudewijn Ietswaart, Berthold Wolpe; among others.

He also looked into German and Czech traditions of expressive printing types that had such a strong presence in the earliest decades of the 20th century.

Having established a stylistic framework, Espinoza designed the typeface from scratch. This allowed him to create an original, typographically consistent and versatile family in five weights, from Light to Ultra Black. Instead of taking cues from the details of any specific original, Espinoza worked with more abstract guidelines in mind: rhythm, angularity and calligraphic origin. This is specially noticeable In the italics, which are strongly calligraphic in nature. The step-by-step process has resulted in a typeface that successfully combines the high legibility and seriousness of a text face with the expressiveness, dynamism and subtle irreverence of the original hand-rendered alphabets. Winco is a versatile family whose extreme weights – Light, Black and Ultra Black – make for striking headlines, while the middle weights work well in both display and text settings. Produced as CFF OpenType fonts, all weights come with small caps and multiple numeral sets, including superscript, subscript and fractions, alternate glyphs and ligatures, making Winco a typographically sophisticated family suitable for a wide range of editorial and corporate work.

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das a

aber der preis mit 40-45 euro pro schnitt ist schon heftig,

wieder nix für 'nen schnellen kauf zwischendurch. schade.

Ui, ein Serif-Begleiter für die FF Profile – oder doch noch mehr als das.

Edit: stelle grade fest, dass das ja eine Sans-Serif ist – erstaunlich wie das täuschen kann.