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Beirut

Strong shapes and contrasts, Beirut is built on an innovative calligraphic principle. The font is structured in two designs. The display version suits for expressive titles, the text version is optimised for reading in smaller sizes. The unique manner of Beirut is outstanding on paper and screen.

Beirut Display and Beirut Text is also available as a Variable Font with one axe (Light → Black). By purchasing a family you receive two Variable Fonts; an upright and an italic.

l’Arte Cinematografica 1974

Weight

Semantics the study meaning

the study of human language

many hands make light work

you cannot unscramble eggs

La scienza di mangiar bene

L’azione del mare sulle coste

Puzzles for 4 year scholars

from February 23th of 1987

circa la superficie di 219 km²

Objectivity in Photography

Every stick has two ends

Los Pirineos son más antiguos que los Alpes: sus sedimentos se depositaron por primera vez en las cuencas costeras durante las eras Paleozoica y Mesozoica. Hace entre 100 y 150 millones de años, durante el período Cretácico Inferior, el golfo de Vizcaya se desplegó, empujando a la España actual contra Francia y aplicando una intensa presión de compresión a grandes capas de roca sedimentaria. La intensa presión y la elevación de la corteza terrestre afectaron primero a la parte oriental y se movieron progresivamente a toda la cadena, culminando en la Época del Eoceno. La parte oriental de los Pirineos se compone principalmente de rocas de granito y gneiss, mientras que en la parte occidental los picos de granito están flanqueados por capas de piedra caliza. El carácter masivo y sin uso de la cordillera proviene de su abundancia de granito, que es resistente a la erosión.

The International Typographic Style has had a profound influence on graphic design as a part of the modernist movement, affecting many design-related fields; including architecture and art. It emphasises cleanness, readability, and objectivity. Hallmarks of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces and flush left, ragged right text. The style is also associated with a preference for photography in place of illustrations or drawings. Many of the early International Typographic Style works featured typography as a primary design element besides its use in text, and it is for this that the style is named. The style emerged from a desire to represent information objectively, free from the influence of associated meaning. The International Typographic Style evolved as a modernist graphic movement that sought to convey messages clearly.

Wie auf dem festen Land, so gibt es auch im Meer, Erhöhungen und Schluchten. Viele Berge unter dem Meer sind höher, manche Gebirgszüge sind länger, viele Schluchten tiefer als irgendwo auf dem Festen. Wenn man den höchsten Berg mit seinen 8847 Metern Höhe, in die tiefste Tiefe versenken wollte, so würden immer noch gut 2186 Meter Wassertiefe über seinem Gipfel liegen. Während aber alle Erhebungen auf dem festen Land dem ständigen, zermürbenden Angriff von Erosion ausgesetzt sind, stehen die Gebirge unterm Meer unversehrt im stillen Wasser der Abgründe. Lediglich ihre obersten Spitzen, die durch das Wasser durchstoßen und uns als Inseln erscheinen, werden vom Wind, von der Brandung und vom Regen angegriffen. Der Meeresboden ist in drei Abschnitte unterteilt : den Kontinental-Schelf, den Kontinental-Abfall und den Tiefseeboden.

Beirut Display

Light

200

Light Italic

200

Book

300

Book Italic

300

Regular

400

Regular Italic

400

SemiBold

500

SemiBold Italic

500

Bold

700

Bold Italic

700

Black

900

Beirut Text

Light

200

Light Italic

200

Book

300

Book Italic

300

Regular

400

Regular Italic

400

SemiBold

500

SemiBold Italic

500

Bold

700

Bold Italic

700

Formats

Desktop: otf (PS)
Variable Desktop: TTF-Variable-Font
Web: woff / woff2 /
Web Variable: woff / woff2
App: otf (PS) / TTF-Variable-Font
Variable App: TTF-Variable-Font

Language Support Latin +100

Afaan Oromo Aymara Basque Bemba Bosnian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician German Gikuyu Greenlandic Hungarian Indonesian Irish Italian Ilocano Javanese lat. Kurdish lat. Latvian Lithuanian Malay Moldovan Norwegian Polish Portuguese Quechua Q’eqchi’ Romanian Romansh Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tshiluba Turkish Walloon Welsh Wolof Zulu

..see the complete list here!

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A U+0041

Alternative Glyphs Default Proportional Lining Figgers Tabular Figgers

Alternate Glyphs

East East

Ligatrues

Sofia → Sofia

Contextual Alternates

Eggy → Eggy

Tabular Lining Figures

$1024 → $124

Superscript

m3 → m³

Ordinals

5a5o → 5ª5º

Fractions

15 ⁄ 32 → 15⁄32

Numerators and Denominators

2H5 → 2H5

Featured on our blog: Edition Umbruch used Beirut Diplay for there prizewinning publication (Design and Art Direction: Laura Asmus, Luzia Hein, Marion Schreiber and Svenja Wamser).

Featured on our blog: The Lugano based designer Luciano Marx used Beirut Display for Artificio, a ten day event showcasing contemporary design from Ticino.

Featured on our blog: The designer Daniel Chehade used Beirut Display for the photo book Gods I've Seen – Abbas, about the Iranian photographer Abbas Attar.