GT Era

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    Moholy-Nagy was the first interwar artist to suggest the use of scientific equipment such as the telescope, microscope, and radiography in the making of art.
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    So much for technique! But what about beauty? The New Architecture throws open its walls like curtains to admit a plenitude of fresh air.
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    Our modern system of production is imposed labor, a senseless pursuit, and, in its social aspects, without plan; its motive is to squeeze out profits to the limit. This in most cases is a reversal of its original purpose.
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    Bei der Betrachtung der Abbildungen dieses Buches vergegenwärtige man sich: Die knappe Ausnutzung von Zeit, Raum, Stoff und Geld in Industrie und Wirtschaft bestimmt entscheiden die Faktoren der Gesichtsbildung für alle modernen Bauorganismen.
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    One proceeds by way of the uniformly compressed circle, of which the oval is a result, to free basic planes. These are, to be sure, without angles but, just as is possible in the case of angular forms,
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    In addition to being a teacher, Albers was an active abstract painter and theorist, best known for his series Homage to the Square, in which he explored chromatic interactions with nested squares, meticulously recording the colors used.
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    Applicants were selected on the basis of their probable aptitudes, which were judged by the specimens of their work they were required to submit.
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    Applicants were selected on the basis of their probable aptitudes, which were judged by the specimens of their work they were required to submit.
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    The repetition of standardized parts, and the use of identical materials in different buildings, will have the same sort of coordinating and sobering effect on the aspect of our towns as uniformity of type in modern attire has in social life.
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    Applicants were selected on the basis of their probable aptitudes, which were judged by the specimens of their work they were required to submit.
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    They tested materials for qualities such as color, texture, structure, resistance to wear, flexibility, light refraction and sound absorption.
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    Applicants were selected on the basis of their probable aptitudes, which were judged by the specimens of their work they were required to submit.
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    Even I was gripped by a kind of timidity bordering on fear when it came to leaving “the world of will and idea”, in which I had lived and worked and in the reality of which I had believed.
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    The repetition of standardized parts, and the use of identical materials in different buildings, will have the same sort of coordinating and sobering effect on the aspect of our towns as uniformity of type in modern attire has in social life.
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Typeface information

GT Era reimagines the warmth and idiosyncrasies of early grotesk typefaces for our own era. These pre-modernist tools were being pushed to their extremes in the radical designs of the modernist movements—like Bauhaus and De Stijl—of the period. The typeface shuns neutrality and embraces friction, championing recognition over uniformity and flavor over conformity.

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Typeface features

OpenType features enable smart typography. You can use these features in most Desktop applications, on the web, and in your mobile apps. Each typeface contains different features. Below are the most important features included in GT Era’s fonts:

  • SS01
  • Alternate g
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