#Basis Grotesque Mono

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Beautiful → Site of the Day for September 17, 2021

Fonts: Gascogne, Basis Grotesque, Basis Grotesque Mono

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RESEARCH: SPACE MONO

1) Space Mono is an original fixed-width type family designed by Colophon Foundry for Google Design. It supports a Latin Extended glyph set, enabling typesetting for English and other Western European languages.Developed for editorial use in headline and display typography, the letterforms infuse a geometric foundation and grotesque details with qualities often found in headline typefaces of the 1960s (See: Microgramma, Eurostile), many of which have since been co-opted by science fiction films, television, and literature.Typographic features include old-style figures, superscript and subscript numerals, fractions, center-height and cap-height currency symbols, directional arrows, and multiple stylistic alternates. (source)

2.) Space Mono — whose name inverts its own typographic classification — is precisely that, a typeface drawn to be innately fixed-pitch that comprises Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic cuts, commissioned for the 2016 update of Google Fonts. This monospace-first, monospace-only brood was hatched in the summer of 2015, on the heels of a sans-serif family called Basis, which we created at Colophon Foundry UK — again, an instance of a proportional-first, monospace-after progression. Included in Basis’s 16-cut system was the most extensive monospaced component we’d drawn to date: a Regular, its Italic counterpart, and Bold and Bold Italic pairings.

The monospaced cuts reacted to Basis’s grotesque forms in such a way that they still garnered a grotesque classification. A monospace type, however, doesn’t describe its character or distinctions, but rather its function and construction. And while that construction often dictates form (an ‘m’ may get smushed into its container; an ‘i’ extended outwards with foot and bar), we find it interesting that despite these formal constraints, monospaced type is widely used in editorial settings to give a certain style or feel rather than hit a specific character count or meet a technical limitation. (source)

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Jules Forrest → Site of the Day for November 18, 2019

Fonts: Value Serif, Basis Grotesque, Apercu Mono

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Sandhurst Retail → Site of the Day for July 28, 2019

Fonts: Ivar, Basis Grotesque Mono

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Dental Select → Site of the Day for April 24, 2019

Fonts: Basis Grotesque, Basis Grotesque Mono

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Alessandro Grespan → Site of the Day for November 13, 2017

Fonts: Basis Grotesque Mono

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Henry Slaughter → Site of the Day for January 24, 2020

Fonts: Basis Grotesque Mono, Basis Grotesque, GT Super

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Netil Radio → Site of the Day for May 9, 2017

Fonts: Bonobo, Basis Grotesque Mono