Isabel Willason

Circe Slab is a slab version of the popular geometric sans serif Circe. It contains variations in weight and contrast, including three regular styles that range from non-contrasting geometric to almost typical book serif contrast ones. In addition, all text styles have narrowed versions. The character set of the font includes small caps, minuscule figures and a wide variety of alternative capitals and small caps. Regular styles of Circe Slab are suitable for long texts and the light and bold ones for headlines. The font was designed by Alexandra Korolkova with the assistance of Oleksa Volochay and released by Paratype in 2018.

Inspired in the world of the fast-food, my aim with Burger was to achieve a sexy slab serif font. Since it’s not very common to see slabs with swashes I consider this project as an experiment with interesting results.
In order to mantain an even weight on the written word, all the glyphs including the swashy ones had to look like compact blocks: This makes the font work much better used with almost no leading, as seen in posters above.
Despite the formal look of its genre, this slab serif is also very playful and unique. (Maybe unhealthy food deserves better fonts already, right?)
Taste Burger, come on, give it a try!

On a more personal note:
Why I made this font? Some months ago I started the gym and with it, an strict diet to see some results faster... Maybe my temptation is being, in Lacanian terms, “sublimated” by making delicious and unhealthy fonts.