Georg Salden originally developed his groundbreaking sans-serif
between 1972 and 1976 for his own GST (Georg Salden Types). It was
“digitized by hand between 1989 and 1992 on the Ikarus system [and]
expanded.” [Devroye]
Polo was probably the first typeface to offer optical
sizes (11 and 22) in digital form. [Übele]
Today, the Polo
family as offered in OpenType by TypeManufactur
spans five weights with Italics, each available in three optical
sizes (11, 22, 66). Further, there are Cyrillics, (upright) small
caps, two display cuts (Fino, Extralight), ten condensed, eight
narrow and two extracondensed styles. A serif companion named
Kant hasn’t been released as of 2022.
Not to be confused with More…
Georg Salden originally developed his groundbreaking sans-serif between 1972 and 1976 for his own GST (Georg Salden Types). It was “digitized by hand between 1989 and 1992 on the Ikarus system [and] expanded.” [Devroye] Polo was probably the first typeface to offer optical sizes (11 and 22) in digital form. [Übele]
Today, the Polo family as offered in OpenType by TypeManufactur spans five weights with Italics, each available in three optical sizes (11, 22, 66). Further, there are Cyrillics, (upright) small caps, two display cuts (Fino, Extralight), ten condensed, eight narrow and two extracondensed styles. A serif companion named Kant hasn’t been released as of 2022.
Not to be confused with Polo (Typoart).
