Designer
Schafer Ole
Greek Version
Haratzopoulos Panayiotis
Suggested Usage
Advertising, Magazine, Newspaper, Company
Family
Contains 10 weights
Basis for Zine was a headline font made for a German newspaper (Sächsische Zeitung); in 1996/97, but it was only a starting point. Ole Schäfer completely re-drew the face, adjusting letter forms and adding weights. He also addressed something that has long been a problem in newspaper and magazine design, that of finding sans and serif faces that work together as headline fonts. His solution was to draw them all right from the start: serif, sans serif and slab serif (slab is not available in Greek);, effectively covering the entire spectrum. As display fonts, these Zines are best suited to headlines, sublines, titles, photo credits, etc., but set a little looser they are fine for text as well.
Greek Zine Sans was designed to accompany Zine Serif originally designed for the newspaper "Apogevmatini."