GT Era

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    One should not imagine that these relationships are to be taken literally, and, above all, should not believe that they can determine the compositional idea.
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    In 1919, I lived in Vienna, lost among the depressed conformists of the postwar period. Coming from a farm in the agricultural center of Hungary, I was less intrigued with the baroque pompousness of the Austrian capital than with the highly developed technology of industrial Germany.
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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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    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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    Not the single piece of work, nor the highest individual attainment must be emphasized, but instead the creation of the commonly usable type, development toward “standards”.
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    Applicants were selected on the basis of their probable aptitudes, which were judged by the specimens of their work they were required to submit.
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    One proceeds by way of the uniformly compressed circle, of which the oval is a result, to free basic planes. These are, to be sure, without angles but, just as is possible in the case of angular forms,
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    The phenomena of nature or of pictorial form become transposed to a new plane where the relationships of the elements begin to break away from objectivity and establish a new kind of order.
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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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    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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    This meant evolving goods specifically designed for mass-production. Our object was to eliminate every drawback of the machine without sacrificing any one of its real advantages.
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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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    MARCEL BREUER (Ungarn), Dessau, Anhalt — Modell zu eine m Etagenhaus für Kleinwohnungen (1924)
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    This meant evolving goods specifically designed for mass-production. Our object was to eliminate every drawback of the machine without sacrificing any one of its real advantages.
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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:

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