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Author

By Satya Rajpurohit • Indian Type Foundry

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A design is only as good as its typography.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence.

Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. The five boxing wizards jump quickly.

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Extralight 200
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
ExtralightItalic 201
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Light 300
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
LightItalic 301
How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
Regular 400
The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
Italic 401
Jinxed wizards pluck ivy from the big quilt.
Medium 500
Crazy Fredericka bought many very exquisite opal jewels.
MediumItalic 501
A wizard's job is to vex chumps quickly in fog.
Semibold 600
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
SemiboldItalic 601
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Bold 700
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
BoldItalic 701
How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
Variable 1
The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
VariableItalic 2
Jinxed wizards pluck ivy from the big quilt.
Textual Density
The wind was a mournful wail as it whipped through the desolate landscape, stirring up dust and debris. The sky was a bleak and unforgiving gray, seeming to mirror the sadness that weighed heavy on the heart of the lone traveler. The road ahead was long and treacherous, with no end in sight. But still, the traveler pressed on, driven by an unshakable determination to reach their destination, no matter the cost. As the journey wore on, the traveler encountered countless hardships, from scorching sun and relentless rain.
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The Story of Author

Author is a family of humanist sans serif fonts. They are optimised for use in modern publications – hence the the name ‘Author.’ Its letterforms are slightly expanded, which gives the counterforms inside of them enough space to breathe, thus increasing their legibility and helps with their on-screen rendering, too. Author’s family includes six weights, ranging from Extralight through Bold. Each weight has an upright and an italic font on offer. The uppercase letters are virtually monolinear in appearance; however, several of the lowercase letters have visible stroke contrast. The tops of Author’s strokes terminate in diagonal cuts; these are reminiscent of the broad-pen that would be used to write the humanist letterforms the typeface is based on. In Author’s upright fonts, the lowercase ‘a’ and ‘g’ are double-storied; there is a single-storey ‘g’ in the fonts as an OpenType alternate. In the italic fonts, the ‘a’ and the ‘g’ are both single-storied. The ascenders of Author’s lowercase letters a slightly taller than the tops of the capitals. The family’s fonts include both lining and oldstyle figures; in both versions, the ‘3’ has a flat top. Author comes from Satya Rajpurohit, the founder of Fontshare and Indian Type Foundry.
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Version

1.0

License

itf_ffl

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16,396

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OpenType Features

aaltcasefracligalnumloclonumordnsaltsups

Tags

#Books#Branding#Logos#Magazines

Languages

Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Aranese, Aromanian, Aymara, Azeri (Latin), Basque, Bemba, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Chichewa, Chuukese, Cofán, Cornish, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Ga, Galician, Ganda, German, Gikuyu, Greenlandic, Guaraní, Guarani, Gwich’in, Haitian, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Javanese, Karelian, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Kituba, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maninka, Manx, Māori, Marshallese, Náhuatl, Nauruan, Navajo, Ndebele (Northern), Ndebele (Southern), Norfuk, Norn, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Nyanja, Occitan, Oromo, Otomi, Palauan, Papiamento, Pedi, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romaji, Romani, Romanian, Sámi (Inari), Sámi (Lule), Sámi (Northern), Sámi (Southern), Samoan, Sango, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seychelles Creole, Shona, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali (Latin), Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino), Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Tuvalu, Twi, Ulithian, Umbundu, Veps, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use Author for commercial projects?

Yes, you can use Author for both personal and commercial projects. However, please review the specific terms of the itf_ffl license.

How many weights does Author include?

The Author family includes 14 specific weights and styles, providing excellent versatility for your typographic designs.

Who designed Author?

Author was designed by Satya Rajpurohit and naturally published by Indian Type Foundry.