Bevellier

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Bevellier is a family of condensed and simplified sans serif fonts. The the most immediately-noticeable characteristics of the typeface are its narrow letters at its rounded-off corners. Formal reduction also plays a strong role in Bevellier’s design. Its simplicity is visible in letters like the lowercase ’t’, where the crossbar does not go across the letter’s entire vertical stroke. Bevellier’s letters are also ‘spurless’; you can see this feature on the top-left corners of letters like ‘m’, ‘n’, and ‘r’. Normally, the letters’ vertical strokes would peak up above the left-hand sides of those letters’ arches, but the ‘spurs’ have been eliminated here. The Bevellier family includes eight weights, which range from Extralight to Black. Each weight has two fonts on offer: an upright and an italic. Just like Bevellier’s upright fonts, Bevellier’s italics are spurless. However, the italic letterforms are more symmetrical than the upright letters. The parts of Bevellier’s upright letterforms that have missing ‘spurs’ are angular; in the italics, they are curved. The strokes of Bevellier’s letterforms all appear to be monolinear. but that doesn’t mean Bevellier is without contrast. Thanks to the family’s large number of weights – eight really is a lot – you can combine two or more of them with each other to create headlines that exhibit quite a bit of contrast! Bevellier’s lowercase letters have a very tall x-height. The fonts’ short ascenders rise to the same height as the tops of the capital letters. The fonts’ numerals are proportional lining figures; in terms of size, they are lower than Bevellier’s uppercase, but still taller than the lowercase letters. Bevellier’s friendly and somewhat technical look makes it an ideal choice for use in branding, editorial design, and poster design.