Katarine Font Family is a raw sans-serif typeface that carries a distressed and raw feel to it, the typeface is not polished. Originally designed as only the display size face in all caps, what was to become the Medium weight of the family was first supplemented with lowercase, and; finally, the character set was made more complete with the addition of all the missing ones. The next stage involved the development of the Light as well as the Bold weights in addition to corresponding Italics. Using this working method the dynamics of the relationships between the characters across the different weights were affected While the concept was being developed it was decided after some contemplation to begin a new drawing of the complete family.
This time the “conventional” approach was used — initially the Light and Bold weights were created. Those extremes were then used to estimate the Regular, Medium, and Semi bold styles. Compared to the first version, the glyphs of the new fonts are slightly wider. The construction of the letters is strong, — the x-height growing from the heaviest to the lightest weights. One will also notice that the relative weight of the stem increases from the horizontal modifier to the vertical modifier of the writing character.
Characters are open and highly inflexible; the italics aren’t crowded. The original fonts contain two types of small caps: Small Caps and Petite Caps. Neither of these was right for emphasis; the Small Caps were too tall, and the Petite Caps were too short. We resolved to substitute both of them with one set of traditional small caps, slightly higher than x-height, being perfect for emphasis in text uses.
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