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Monokrom [Frode Bo Helland]

Monokrom is a small independent type foundry based in Norway, founded by Frode Helland and Sindre Bremnes. Frode Bo Helland is a Norwegian graphic designer in Oslo who created the typefaces Noir (an ultralight stressed sans serif) and Aften (a grotesque). He writes about Aften: Aften is the old man smoking his pipe in a comfortable manner, sipping his tea and watching the young go about their business. He is a gentleman by nature: a cold, slightly old fashioned, grotesque.

In December 2012, he set up his own type foundry together with Sindre Bremnes and Hans Ivar, Monokrom, and started with five type families:

• Satyr (2012). A serifed work horse book typeface based on the principle of eliminating all straight line segments. It has airy pockets and counters.
• Faunus (2012). Related to, but slightly different from Satyr.
• Vinter (was: Noir) (2012). Vinter is a geometric sans-serif intended for titling: At its core lies an exaggerated classical rhythm and a geometric-humanist structure with contrasting opened and closed apertures. It has a rotated, not slanted, italic. Winner at TDC 2013.
• Telefon (2012). Telefon is based on the lettering on the original Norwegian phone booths, drawn by architect Georg Fredrik Fasting in the 30s. Telefon is a general purpose geometric sans serif in three weights and was created by Sindre Bremnes.
• Aften Screen (2012). They write: Aften is watching the sun set on the front porch with a pipe and a good book. Aften is doing the dishes, reading the news and listening to Bill Evans. Aften means evening, and its letterforms breathes the peaceful calm I depend upon to cope with everyday life. Drawn specifically to perform well on screens in small sizes.
• In 2018, Frode Helland published Indikator (a humanist sans for lifestyle magazines) and Symphonie Grotesque at Indian Type Foundry.
• In 2019, he released Astrup (Indian Type Foundry), a rational sans typeface that evokes France in the 1950s.
• Griff (2019). Griff is a sans family with large x-height, almost open counters, and thinner strokes near the middle of the glyphs.
• In 2020, he released Erika Hand at Indian Type Foundry. In 2021, he released the simple hand-printed typeface Comico, the 12-style General Sans (2017-2021; a rationalist sans that feels like France in the 1950s), the sourdough Brotschrift Numra (for literary typesetting), the LCD font Segment, and the 6-style dot matrix font Array at Fontshare.

Typecache link. Personal page of Frode Bo Helland. Fontshop link.

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