FSD | C.P. Company™ Font Family 5×OTF $49

by FSD

C.P. Company is a group of types designed by Fabrizio Schiavi in 2000. It includes 4* different forms and it is a complementary sign of fashion label C.P. Company corporate branding.

*Note from uploader: Looking at images of the font in use, I frequently saw what was obviously a heavier weight than Regular, but thinner than Bold. So I blended the two together for a semibold weight, which I called Medium. I included it here, but it is not one of the original four.

C.P. Company communication makes use of media such as the press and the web and that’s the reason why we have always felt the need for a font that would not show incongruities through the monitor. Therefore we have decided to change the structure of glyphs like a, e, g, s… in the most contrasted versions to prevent the serifs from touching the internal parts of the letters and in this manner we have made a really unusual stylistic choice for a group of types.

The difference between the height of caps and smalls is very low (about 20%) so that the smalls are easy to read even when their dimensions are on a very small scale. Moreover this stylistic solution gives the possibility to avoid using the small capitals in case of charts and catalogue codes (i.e. Tricot M5) and provides more vertical compactness between the lines. Even a sentence written in capital letters next to another one written in smalls does not look so much contrasted from a typographical point of view and then it is not unpleasant.

The limits due to different constructive principles have been overcome by means of a grid based on the automatic division of EM square of 9-point type and in this manner the letters have a wider face.

The font is even more unusual owing to the style chosen that belongs to the classical tradition of hair-lined types for glyphs like e and also thanks to ligatures like fi in the characters set.

CP Company is a geometrical font influenced by the types that preceded Helvetica, albeit more experimental, matched with updated solutions. Numbering is monospaced. The bending of number 2, the slight raising of the oblique serif of number 4 and the presence of a hair-line in number 7 are the solutions adopted to make the types match in a more balanced manner.