Magneta Condensed

Design
  • Neil Summerour
Current release
2019
Initial release
2009
No. styles/fonts
12
Features
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Style names

Aa
Thin
Aa
Thin Italic
Aa
Book
Aa
Book Italic
Aa
Medium
Aa
Medium Italic
Aa
Semibold
Aa
Semibold Italic
Aa
Bold
Aa
Bold Italic
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Black
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Black Italic
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They invented a valve that could produce multi-kilowatt pulses at 10 cm wavelength
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The high power of pulses from the device made centimeter-band radar practical for the Allies
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The compact cavity magnetron tube drastically reduced the size of radar sets to be installed
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Yoji Ito was experimenting with magnetrons in Japan, and proposed a system of collision avoidance
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Back in Japan, he produced a prototype pulse magnetron with 2 kW output in October 1941
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The electron will naturally be pushed towards the lower-voltage side of the tube
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In the post-war era the magnetron was less widely used for radar applications
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The idea of using a grid for control was patented by Lee de Forest
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One concept used a magnetic field instead of an electrical charge to control current flow
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At very high magnetic field settings the electrons are forced back onto the cathode

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Description

To describe what inspired Magneta would be to add a little Dwiggins, throw in some Benton with a hint of Austin, wrap it up in a crisp, contemporary package and serve.

The skeleton of the family is a Garalde (like my earlier Epic) but with a desire to produce something much more transitional and contemporary, I sought to simplify, simplify, simplify. Cap and ascenders share the same height, the x-height is slightly larger than expected which should make a functional typeface for editorial, headlines or where more visually complex systems are needed. The modulation is much more intentional than historical and creates some interesting interactions between the various weights.

There are both Normal and Condensed widths available with 6 different weights and matching italics, small caps, oldstyle figures, swashes, stylistic and discretionary ligatures (that includes some fun majuscule ligatures in the roman styles), there is no lack of typographic goodness for the designer. To add some spice, a set of Decorative Ornaments have been created that include geometric, floral, curvilinear patterns and much more.

Languages supported

  • Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Wolof, Zulu