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By Ralf Herrmann

Canada’s New Typefaces Unifies the Country’s Many Languages

While the United States has yet to determine its typographic identity, its northern neighbor recently chose one. Canada 150, created for the country’s 150th birthday, is a typographic family that unites the Latin characters of English/French with the syllabic characters of the indigenous dialects.

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Riccardo Sartori

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December 15, 201510 yr

“created by Canadian typeface designer Raymond Larabie.”

I had always considered him more Japanese than Canadian, at least when it comes to type design :winking:

Ralf Herrmann

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December 15, 201510 yr

I had no idea where he comes from or lives now. But I just learned about it and set up a Directory entry for him. :happy:

Riccardo Sartori

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July 2, 20178 yr

After being further extended for the use in a manned Mars mission, the typeface, renamed Canada1500, has been placed in the public domain.

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