Aligne Variable

Leinster Type

Aligne

Brisbane Variable

Brisbane

Gardein Variable

Gardein

Sedgwick Regular

Sedgwick

Troy Leinster is an Independent Typeface Designer from Brisbane, Australia. He holds a master&#x27;s Degree in Typeface Design from the Type &amp; Media program at The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, The Netherlands—and a Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design from the Type@Cooper Program at Cooper Union in New York. From 2014–2021, Troy was a full-time typeface designer at the Hoefler&amp;Co Type Foundry in New York. In 2022, he launched Leinster Type, with retail typefaces including Brisbane, Sedgwick, and Aligne. Troy has accumulated over ten years of typeface design experience and has been teaching the Principles of Typeface Design course at Cooper Union in NYC since 2016. In 2020, Troy founded Typemasters, an online one-on-one coaching service to support designers through the process of making a typeface.

Typically typefaces with contrast fall into two main categories, ‘Translation’ where the contrast axis is about 120 degrees with the thin part of the stroke appearing top left and bottom right of the letterform, influenced by the broad-nib pen, or ‘Expansion’ where the contrast axis is at 90 degrees with the thin parts of the stroke appearing top and bottom of the letterform, influenced by the pointed-nib pen. The contrast system is created by observing stroke relationships derived from either calligraphic models. Aligne is a high contrast geo sans family that doesn’t follow either calligraphic model, but finds relationships in the shapes of the letterforms rather than the strokes that make up the letterforms. The heavy exterior shapes are the focus, with contrasting thin strokes distributed throughout, creating the appearance the letters have been assembled on the page. Aligne pushes the limits from a delicate Hairline with no contrast to a hefty Ultra with extreme contrast.

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Troy Leinster