Apartamento magazine (2008–)
Contributed by Matthijs Sluiter on May 21st, 2014. Artwork published in
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Apartamento is an interiors magazine dedicated to interior space and the people who live in it. Artists, designers and architects in all stages of their working life are interviewed about their professional and personal lifes, with special attention to their homes as a connection between both worlds.
The magazine has maintained the same functional layout and typeface selection since 2008: Clearface [more specifically: Clearface Serial, see comments] for headers, and two weights of Futura for all other text.
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Apartamento’s spines are typically decorated with patterns, except for the tenth anniversary issue, which sports a lettering by artist Lawrence Weiner.
2 Comments on “Apartamento magazine (2008–)”
Hello, the typeface isn’t ITC Clearface but Clearface Serial Xbold from SoftMaker Foundry. Clearface Serial matches one-to-one to the Apartamento logo. Cheers
Hi Andres, thanks for your comment!
You are right: Apartamento doesn’t use ITC Clearface, but rather a version of the expansion made at Brendel and Pabst sometime before 1989, that is Clearface Serial.
Judging from the fonts embedded in pdfs on Apartamento’s website, technically it’s not SoftMaker’s version, but rather “Clerface” by B & P Graphics Ltd, 1993. Then again, that’s six of one and half a dozen of another: the fonts by SoftMaker and B & P Graphics have the same origin and are identical in their basic design.
The comparison below shows, from top to bottom, the Apartamento logo, a resetting in Clerface Bold (with slightly reduced tracking), and ITC Clearface Heavy (stretched horizontally to 127%, with drastically reduced tracking – that’s about as close as one can get with ITC’s version).
I’ve adjusted the typeface credits.