GT Era

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    Recognized for his invention of bicycle-handlebar-inspired tubular steel furniture, Breuer lived off his design fees at a time in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the architectural commissions he was looking for were few and far between.
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    His style in architecture and consumer goods was to be functional, cheap and consistent with mass production.
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    So much for technique! But what about beauty? The New Architecture throws open its walls like curtains to admit a plenitude of fresh air.
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    Meyer favoured measurements and calculations in his presentations to clients, along with the use of off-the-shelf architectural components to reduce costs.
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    Moholy-Nagy was the first interwar artist to suggest the use of scientific equipment such as the telescope, microscope, and radiography in the making of art.
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    ERNST MAY, Mitarbeiter KAUFMANN, Frankfurt am Main, Siedlung Praunheim bei Frankfurt am Main (1926)
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    Our modern system of production is imposed labor, a senseless pursuit, and, in its social aspects, without plan; its motive is to squeeze out profits to the limit. This in most cases is a reversal of its original purpose.
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    It is evident, therefore, that the height-limit imposed by regulations is an irrational restriction which has hampered evolution in design.
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    But the primary advantage of the flat roof is that it renders possible a much freer kind of interior planning.
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    They tested materials for qualities such as color, texture, structure, resistance to wear, flexibility, light refraction and sound absorption.
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    They became, for instance, the stimulus for a new typography; they affected photography, advertising, the motion picture, the theater, and have had many repercussions on our whole life today.
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    The repetition of standardized parts, and the use of identical materials in different buildings, will have the same sort of coordinating and sobering effect on the aspect of our towns as uniformity of type in modern attire has in social life.
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    In addition to being a teacher, Albers was an active abstract painter and theorist, best known for his series Homage to the Square, in which he explored chromatic interactions with nested squares, meticulously recording the colors used.
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    Commonly known to his friends and associates as Lajkó, Breuer was born in Pécs, Hungary, to a Jewish family.
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Typeface information

GT Era reimagines the warmth and idiosyncrasies of early grotesk typefaces for our own era. These pre-modernist tools were being pushed to their extremes in the radical designs of the modernist movements—like Bauhaus and De Stijl—of the period. The typeface shuns neutrality and embraces friction, championing recognition over uniformity and flavor over conformity.

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Typeface features

OpenType features enable smart typography. You can use these features in most Desktop applications, on the web, and in your mobile apps. Each typeface contains different features. Below are the most important features included in GT Era’s fonts:

  • SS01
  • Alternate g
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