About Preface Black
Preface vs. Helvetica/Futura/Gill: a different strategy of text color. Whereas the established classes of sans serif typeface achieve a dynamic balance between stroke and space by combining a diversity of letterform with an evenness of fit, Preface switched the emphasis, driving out diagonals to create a dominant harmony of curves and perpendiculars, matched with a greater variety of inter-character space shapes - the result of extra width introduced in the “f” and “t”, and by the openness that accompanies the wide tails of the “a” and “l”, and the serif of the “i”. Preface also features tabular old style figures. |
