![]() Each style also comes pre-loaded with a handful of pictograms and icons perfect for adorning your designs with extra Thorben-ness. Part Nouveau curves and Celtic script, topped with a few sprinkles of modernism, darkness and some quirky ideas – Thorben absorbs it all, creating a display face that feels antiquated and current at the same time. What started as a redrawing of some old carvings (on a castle wall in deepest, darkest Suffolk), is now something entirely different. Thorben the typeface is something of an inspiration-hybrid, pulling aspects from multiple sources and combining them into a typeface that strangely seems to work (or not – depending on your point of view). AW Conqueror Sans is a claimed French synthesis of Germanic Modernism and English classical tradition. And this typeface, like the nebulous kingdom he ruled, is something of a cloudy concoction. The old Norse legend of Thorben Odinson is a cautionary tale. The font is currently #43 in Hot New Fonts. Thorben contains 4 styles and family package options. Thorben was designed by Jonathan Gibson and published by Studio Buchanan.
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