Gordian Kapitalen

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Gordian Kapitalen is a font family based on classical Roman square capitals found on a Trajan column in Ancient Rome. The typeface includes four open titling capitals, and a collection of entangled double capitals designed for unique headlines.

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In its most general sense, the term ‘world’ refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a ‘plurality of worlds’. Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex made up of many parts. In scientific cosmology the world or universe is commonly defined as ’the totality of all space and time; all that is, has been, and will be’. Theories of modality, on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. Phenomenology, starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the ‘horizon of all horizons’. In philosophy of mind, the world is commonly contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. Theology conceptualizes the world in relation to God, for example, as God’s creation, as identical to God or as the two being interdependent. In religions, there is often a tendency to downgrade the material or sensory world in favor of a spiritual world to be sought through religious practice. A comprehensive representation of the world and our place in it, as is commonly found in religions, is known as a worldview. Cosmogony is the field that studies the origin or creation of the world while eschatology refers to the science or doctrine of the last things or of the end of the world.

Design Concept

Gordian, an elegant sans serif with very slightly modulated strokes, is rooted in classic Roman square capitals, designed to be engraved in stone. The author of the typeface, Nikola Djurek, has practised stone carving, which is reflected in the subtle chiselling of Gordian’s flaring stroke endings. These traditional roots, however, combine with modern characteristics (wider B, E, F, P and S characters, plus a complete set of lowercase letters) to create a distinctly 21st-century typeface, and there is also a generous selection of alternative glyphs which can serve to give the text either a more classical or a more modern feel.

Roman inscriptions on Pantheon in Rome

Type System

Gordian has four weights designed for intermediate text sizes, each with true italics and small caps. It also includes 12 stunning display styles in two versions, Kapitalen (four weights of plain single capitals) and Knot (eight sets of entangled double capitals), the latter featuring smart OpenType functions that create various interactive patterns.

Gordian, Type System

Numeral styles

Each weight of Gordian includes nine different kinds of numerals. Proportional old-style figures come as default figures in Gordian. It also, however, includes lining figures, tabular numerals (both lining and old-style), small caps numerals, superior, inferior, circled and circled inverted numerals. For the running text, old-style figures work best; for capital setting, use lining figures; and for small caps, choose the specially designed Small Caps numerals applicable via OpenType layout features. When you take a licence for this font you can choose the default numeral variants inside the fonts.

Gordian font, numeral styles

Gordian pre-programmed patterns

In addition to four static styles, NE, SE, SW and NE, Gordian Kapitalen includes four smart fonts with OpenType substitutions programmed to rotate multiple alternatives of each glyph to create unique word patterns. These display fonts either cycle through all variations, or mix them randomly, and you can also choose whether they all sit on the baseline, or move up and down to reinforce the dynamic character of the Gordian Kapitalen.

Gordian pre-programmed patterns

Alternative glyphs

Like many Typotheque fonts, Gordian also includes alternative versions of some basic characters accessible as Stylistic Sets. For example, there is a simple lower-case ‘g’, an alternative double-storey ‘g’, and an alternative shape of the capital ‘G’ too.

Gordian, Alternative glyphs

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  • G
    G

    Alternative `G`

    ss01

    Alternative version of the capital letter ‘G’, including its accented variants.
  • Q
    Q

    Alternative `Q`

    ss02

    Alternative version of the capital letter ‘Q’.