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TT Knickerbockers
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TT Knickerbockers

TT Knickerbockers is a typeface duo celebrating New York City. It pairs a monumental sans serif with an energetic script to capture the city's dual nature.
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Description

About font family TT Knickerbockers
160+ Language support

TT Knickerbockers is a contrasting pair of fonts that continues our project series dedicated to different cities. The new project is dedicated to New York with its multiculturalism, historicity, creativity, energy, and to its inhabitants. TT Knickerbockers Grotesk symbolizes the monumentality of New York expressed in both its traditional historic architecture and skyscrapers. Energy, constant movement and the round-the-clock life of New York—all this is reflected in our TT Knickerbockers Script.

TT Knickerbockers Grotesk is a narrow contrast sans-serif with characteristic elements sending us back to the 19th century. There’s also a reference to antiqua fonts to be noticed in the font: where in traditional antiqua there would be serifs, TT Knickerbockers Grotesk features a straight stroke ending, and traditional drops (finals, tails and ears) are substituted with rounded strokes. In TT Knickerbockers Grotesk you will find unusual characters, stylistic alternatives and ligatures. The following OpenType features are implemented: ordn, case, frac, sups, sinf, numr, dnom, onum, tnum, pnum, liga, dlig, salt, ss01.

Team

Ivan Gladkikh—head of the project
Yuliana Morgun—designer of script font
Nadezhda Polomoshnova—designer of the sans font
Philipp Nurullin—type designer

Release date

25 July, 2017

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Specimen

Download font specimen (pdf)

Poster Images

Graphic presentation at Behance

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Character Set

Basic Latin Basic Cyrillic Extended Latin Stylistic Alternates, Standard and Discretionary Ligatures|salt,liga,dlig Lining Figures, Currencies Old-style Figures|onum Punctuation, Symbols, Mathematical Symbols, Arrows
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OpenType features

TT Knickerbockers TT Knickerbockers Script
salt | Stylistic Alternates

alуu

alуu

liga | Standard Ligatures

fl ft ffi

fl ft ffi

dlig | Discretionary Ligatures

ij ct st

ij ct st

onum | Oldstyle Figures

1638

1638

case | Case Sensitive Forms

({[H]})

({[H]})

numr | Numerators

H123

H123

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