Quara
Reduced letterforms
approved for human use.
Designed by Delve Withrington
THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS
Number 1
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Number 2
A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Number 3
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Story
The square-ish form and slightly rounded terminals of Quara takes its cues from avant-garde technology and new gadget lust. It began as a design for a custom typeface project. Ultimately the client chose an altogether different design but designer Delve Withrington decided the merit of Quara warranted further development and saw it through to completion.
The omission of portions of strokes near joins was one of several design techniques used in developing glyphs for the purpose of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) by early computers. For the design of Quara, this simplification of form is as much an aesthetic feature as it is evidence of the increasing acceptance of “unconventional” letterforms in the ongoing development of methods to construct visual language.
The compactness of Quara makes it quite useful for headlines and subheads on websites, in games, magazines, brochures, and posters. Quara also maintains a versatility that allows it to perform well for shorter passages at normal text sizes.
Glyphs
Basic Latin 94
Latin-1 Supplement 95
Latin Extended-A 10
Latin Extended-B 1
Spacing Modifier Letters 8
Greek and Coptic 1
General Punctuation 16
Currency Symbols 1
Letterlike Symbols 2
Mathematical Operators 12
Geometric Shapes 1
Alphabetic Presentation Forms 5
Quara supports 152 languages. View our language support page to see which.
Additional features include: Kerning, Fractions, Standard Ligatures, and Ordinals.