TheSans used on Mother Jones infographics about Walmart. In hindsight, I would have made a few more of the ligatures discretionary, so they would not be on by default in design applications. That was understandably swapped by MS for the Office environment.
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I had originally delivered it with hanging figures as default, for the purpose of reading longer texts on screen. LG: Calibri being the default font came as a surprise to me. Did you know it was going to be such a ubiquitous typeface? Had you foreseen its omnipresence, would you have done anything differently? LC: You’re well-known in the type world for your superfamily Thesis, but it’s Calibri that is used by millions every day as the default font in MS Word. TheMix used in branding for German shipping company GargoLine. I decided the project needed an original typeface I wanted to create a new and unique voice that would make the communication an all-encompassing matter. LG: Creating typographic designs helps me find bugs in typefaces it’s important to use what you make. Actually, I designed my first typeface while working on my final art school project, which was to design a big pile of applied typography, editorial, illustration, photography, 3D, etc.
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What unique experiences do you have when you’re designing a piece of typography using a typeface you also designed? LC: You’re both a type designer and typographer. Luc(as) de Groot sits down with Type Network’s own Lucas (Czarnecki) to talk about Calibri’s ubiquity, de Groot’s interpolation theory, and what it means for LucasFonts to join TN.