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Symbolset Specimen
Production Method
Offset
Design
Oak Studios
Alonzo Felix
Printing
Oliver Printing Co.
This type sample for an OpenType font that changes keywords into icons—or symbols—appropriates useful aspects of traditional type specimen booklets, and adds custom features to help the reader better understand the new innovation. Samples of how one might use the symbols, correlations that draw connections between the icons and raw geometric shapes, and examples of the glyphs in sentence context represent the basic uses for symbolist fonts and give potential users a launch pad to start from.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
5.5 × 5.5 in
unfolded (poster): 16.5 × 22 in
Page Count
12
Paper Stock
Lynx / Ultra Smooth Offset / Opaque White / 60T
Number of Colors
4
Varnishes
–
Binding
Roll fold/Fouble parallel fold
Typography
FF Kievit by FontFont
Omnes by Darden Studio
SS Standard by Symbolset
SS Social by Symbolset
SS Symbolicons by Symbolset
SS Pika by Symbolset
Project Description
Symbolsets are semantic icon fonts that turn keywords into icons. They work on the web, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and anywhere else OpenType is supported. We thought it would be great to have a physical object that could help put our digital icons into people's hands so we made a specimen booklet. It features all currently available sets (Standard, Social, Symbolicons, and Pika) in a fun and colorful way and also folds out into a poster on the reverse side. Some of the panels are illustrations made using icons from several sets in combination and others put the icons in context like a traditional type specimen. The poster on the back contrasts raw geometric shapes with icons suggesting the way that the icons themselves were rationalized from those shapes.Production Lesson(s)
Folding paper can be tricky business. We had to do a bit of experimenting to find a folding method and paper stock that would work for the design. We ended up going with a fairly lightweight stock (60-pound text) to reduce wrinkling due to roll folding/double parallel folding of a poster-sized sheet down to a small 5-by-5-inch booklet.
Post Author
Duncan Robertson
Former intern at UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
June 3, 2013
Filed Under
Booklet
Offset
Tagged with
folded poster
lightweight paper
symbols
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