What is the Kari Display™ font?
Kari Display is the product of a long standing idea I had to give the well-received Positype typeface, Kari, plastic surgery. Just referring to giving a typeface plastic surgery, or letter lipo, stuck in the back of my head until I was able to pick the project up. More…
The ultimate objective was to refine Kari Display to a point where each glyph was expressed as simple as possible… and in that simplicity a sexiness would appear. Kari is a beautiful script, but it is very ‘controlled’ and orderly and I wanted Kari Display to break that mold with much more movement, curviness, greater modulation and a more elegant feel on the page. I did not want to take it too far, limiting the use of the typeface, but rather opted for a delicate balance of thick and thin against the added movement of the glyphs.
The wealth of sketches and proposed variants during the concepting phase was encouraging and I really pushed to add as many alternate characters, ligatures, swashes (and more) as I possibly could. Just about every character has at least one or more alternates AND the complete offering of alternates completely covers a wide range of Latin-based language groups including Central European diacritics.
If you are using any type of OpenType enabled application, then the Kari Display Pro typefaces are the way to go. They include everything found in the 3 separate variants for each style as well as entirely expanding offering of additional swash and ligature sets.
Kari Display™ Font families
The Kari Display™ includes the following font families:
- Kari Display Pro Regular
- Kari Display Pro Italic
- Kari Display A
- Kari Display A Italic
- Kari Display B
- Kari Display B Italic
- Kari Display C
- Kari Display C Italic
Kari Display™ Preview
Here is a preview of how Kari Display™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
