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La nouvelle Opération M35
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Door: Kees-Jan Smit
(Translation by Hugo Veldkamp)
Copy a font which was applied to the front wings of a prototype Citroën. How do you do that actually?
Notable to the fonts, which are applied by Citroën to the M35, are the rounding’s to the bottom of the t and the ‘swipe’ at the y s’ tail. As far as I know this doesn’t occur on any standard font type, so an adjustment to the shape of an existing font will be necessary. First we start looking for a font which can be used for a start. Therefore we check the typographic characteristics, such as the relation between bold and regular and rounding’s of, for example, the p, o and e. These have to be similar as much as possible with the original to get to a perfect result. Therefore we should imagine the design department of Citroën in 1970.
A common used sans serif font at that time in France is Univers, which was designed in 1956 by the Swiss Adrian Frutiger. On most points it is quite similar to the font used on the front wing, but on some spots it is missing a certain linearity. During those days Max Miedinger from Switzerland designed the well-known Helvetica. Helvetica is a bit less dashing than the Univers font, but Citroën would not use such a ordinary font as Helvetica on a special prototype like the M35, would they? But yes, they did.
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Vandaag was het dan zover, de M35-site is online. We hebben er lang en hard aan gewerkt. Er is gekozen voor een vorm waarin we middels korte berichten telkens iets nieuws naar voren kunnen brengen. Dat kan over een individuele auto zijn, over de historie, technische documenten en naslagwerken, evenementen, zolang het maar over de Citroën M35 gaat of direct mee te maken heeft.
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