FAY Basis

Typefaces are an important part of graphic design and creative media. FayType wants to give everyone the opportunity to dive below the surface and gain insights into why typefaces are an amazing, insightful topic with lots of history and worth learning about, while experimenting and providing high quality typefaces for people to use.

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FAY Basis is a display focused workhorse neo-grotesque inspired by iconic design history. FAY Basis currently contains 2 families: FAY Basis Display and FAY Basis Text. The Display family is designed for large scale use, contains tighter spacing and wider capitals to aid the purpose of display use-cases. The Text family is designed for copytext and small scale uses.

24 Styles

2 Families
12 Styles per family, 6 weights, 6 oblique

Case-Sensitive Forms, Oldstyle Figures, Tabular Figures, Denominators, Numerators, Fractions, Arrow Symbols, Stylistic Sets

For an overview of the included features, take a look at the PDF Specimen.

XXX

per style.
LATIN S character set

2020-2024

373

according to the Hyperglot Database by Rosetta Type.