HAL Typefaces
HAL Typefaces

 Matex
Thin Light Book
Regular
Medium Bold
Stylistic
Alternates

HAL Matex is inspired by schoolbook/textbook grotesques as well as geometric bauhaus aesthetics, apparent in references such as Herbert Bayer’s mid-1920’s, lowercase “Universal”. The typeface exists in six weights featuring numerous spurless characters with corresponding alternates accessible via opentype stylistic sets.  Download Specimen

Collection
Colant
Four Grotesk
Magic
Repost
Timezone
Twins
Vincent

Design

HAL Typefaces

Production

HAL Typefaces

Styles

Thin, Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Bold

File Formats

otf, ttf, woff, woff2

Characterset

Latin Limited

Release Year

2019

 

 

Steam
Steam

Drywall
Drywall

Builds
Builds

Opentype feature: access all alternates

Opentype feature: access all alternates

Opentype feature: access all alternates

&&&

aaa

Opentype feature: alternate “&”

Opentype feature: alternate “a”

aa

nn

ss

rr

Opentype feature: alternate “a”

Opentype feature: alternate “n”

Opentype feature: alternate “s”

Opentype feature: alternate “r”

Universal (ca. 1925) by Herbert Bayer

AG Schoolbook (1983) by Günter Gerhard Lange

ITC Ronda (1970) by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase 

Helvetica Textbook

Churchward Design (1970) by Joseph Churchward

Harry (1966) Marty Goldstein and C.B. Smith

 Matex
Thin Light
Book Regular
Medium Bold
Stylistic
Alternates

HAL Matex is inspired by schoolbook/textbook grotesques as well as geometric bauhaus aesthetics, apparent in references such as Herbert Bayer’s mid-1920’s, lowercase “Universal”. The typeface exists in six weights featuring numerous spurless characters with corresponding alternates accessible via opentype stylistic sets.  Download Specimen

Design

HAL Typefaces

Production

HAL Typefaces

Styles

Thin, Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Bold

File Formats

otf, ttf, woff, woff2

Characterset

Latin Limited

Release Year

2019

 

 

aa

nn

ss

rr

Opentype feature: alternate “a” 

Opentype feature: alternate “n” 

Opentype feature: alternate “s” 

Opentype feature: alternate “r”

Steam
Steam

Drywall
Drywall

Builds
Builds

Opentype feature: access all alternates 

Opentype feature: access all alternates 

Opentype feature: access all alternates

&&&

aaa

Opentype feature: alternate “&” 

Opentype feature: alternate “a”

Universal (ca. 1925) by Herbert Bayer

AG Schoolbook (1983) by Günter Gerhard Lange

ITC Ronda (1970) by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase 

Helvetica Textbook

Churchward Design (1970) by Joseph Churchward

Harry (1966) Marty Goldstein and C.B. Smith