Ingeo

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Between rigid geometry and the most expressive calligraphy there are countless combinatory possibilities. Ingeo is just one of them. Starting from a geometric approach it shows, however, a clear willingness to accommodate in its structure the calligraphic traits of our alphabet. In Ingeo geometry grows from the inside, meaning that all its counters are based on geometric shapes. Around them, contours are later defined. The solid mass resulting from that interaction is modulated in specific areas in a way that evokes the way a writing hand finishes a letter and starts the following one. Ingeo seeks to accommodate calligraphic features in its geometric structure without any complexes, in the same way a computer engineer writes a song or a poet admires the orbits of planets and satellites. In this vast and unmapped realm between seemingly opposing concepts is where Ingeo finds its play field. That interaction is pushed to its limits, especially in the stylistic sets, and the resulting letterforms are later confronted with typographical conventions to assess whether they survive.

Ingeo comes with 695 glyphs with support for more than 220 languages. Among these glyphs you can find 5 stylistic sets, 19 useful science-related icons as well as 7 different designs for ampersands.

Ingeo geometric typeface specimen poster

Ingeo geometric typeface covid icons poster

First released on 29th April 2021

Ingeo: styles

Roman | Italic

Ingeo sans serif geometric typeface headline samples

Ingeo sans serif geometric typeface text samples

Italic | Roman

Harri text italic headline samples in three sizes

Harri text italic samples in three sizes

Ingeo: character set

Ingeo comes with 695 glyphs and supports 220+ languages. Among these glyphs you can find 5 stylistic sets, 19 useful science-related icons as well as 7 different designs for ampersands. If you do not find the character or glyph you need, please contact me and I will be happy to add it to the fonts.

Ingeo sans serif geometric typeface character set

Ingeo supports more than 220 languages:

Abenaki, Afaan, Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape, Verdean, Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Guadeloupean, Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese, Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Onĕipŏt, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Inari Sami), Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Northern Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish, Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tamazight, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni.

Ingeo: features

Ingeo presents a wide range of Opentype features for a creative text layout

(see table below)

The design of Ingeo is based primarily on geometry. The counters of the letters were the main field for experimentation. Variations in counter shapes influence the shape of the letters in different ways depending on their weights. The results of this procedure are accesible through the stylistic sets #1 to #3. Stylistic set #1 applies squarish counters when the structure of the letter allows it. Stylistic set #2 uses rounded counters changing the shape of some letters to accomodate them. Stylistic set #3 mixes both schemes in a pseudo-random way giving rise to unexpected and peculiar combinations.

In addition, stylistic set #10 switches every single-storey “a” by a double-storey “a“; and stylistic set #19 –that fateful number…– is meant to be a reminder of how big the influence of a tiny virus may be in our lifes. When applied it “infects” the text replacing all “O”, “o” and zeros with a virus icon. Stylistic set #20 is a way to access all the icons in the fonts using keywords (see icon table below)

Ingeo geometric typeface stylistic sets

Ingeo geometric typeface OpetnType features

In Ingeo, icons can be accessed by way of the Glyphs panel in most Adobe apps. There is also the possibility to get the whole set of icons using the keywords “icon01”, “icon02”, “icon03″… “icon33”; in combination with Stylistic set #20 (see image below)