High-Contrast Display Serif
Collection + The Bilstein Editorial
Pairs sculptural editorial warmth with Collection's clean modern geometry.
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Clean 1970s athletic & editorial condensed grotesk (PUA, OTF & TTF)
Collection
Collection is a crisp, medium-condensed retro grotesk (PUA, OTF & TTF) with clean flat terminals and balanced open counters.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Sturdy stroke walls and open counters weed cleanly on adhesive vinyl, HTV apparel film, and cut cardstock.
Plotter & output verdictEasy-Weed Vinyl & Print Ready
Recommended minimum scale0.75 in+ cap height
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessPUA Encoded
Best surfaces & mediaBrand Packaging · Social Graphics · Vinyl Decals
Compatible design toolsCricut Design Space · Silhouette Studio · Canva Pro · Illustrator
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Collection.
Collection is a condensed grotesk drawn from nineteen-seventies athletic and editorial lettering: narrow stems, flat shoulders, a tall x-height, a slightly squared bowl and a small flare where a stem meets the curve. It ships with PUA alternates as OTF and TTF, and the alternates mostly change the flare rather than the skeleton. It needs roughly 20 mm for the flare and the squared bowl to read, and it is best in one dark ink on white or on a warm sand stock, where the narrow stems stay crisp.
70s-editorial-sans · Clean-grotesk · Warm-modern
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Collection’s stroke geometry.
Athletics-label identity, swing tag and kit print
A seventies condensed grotesk reads as a sports label from a catalogue rather than a modern fitness brand, which is what a small maker of kit wants. The narrow stems fit a long product name on a swing tag at 14 mm, and one ink prints the tag and the kit print without a second plate.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Swing tag 50 x 90 mm, word 14 mm, 5 mm margins with a 4 mm hole and 8 mm clear. Kit print 250 x 200 mm, word 60 mm, 20 mm margins. Card 85 x 55 mm, word 14 mm, 5 mm margins.
Pre-production check
On a 50 x 90 mm swing tag at 14 mm the squared bowl fills and the product name greys out beside the price. Keep tags at 16 mm and above, and print one tag on the actual board before the batch.
Sports-feature opener, results table and kicker
A condensed grotesk from the seventies gives a sports feature a printed-programme voice rather than a screen voice. The tall x-height holds a results table at 8 pt with tight leading, and the narrow stems keep a long fixture list inside one column without tracking out.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Opener 210 x 297 mm, headline 64 pt, standfirst 11/15 pt, 18 mm margins. Results table 90 mm wide, rows 8/10 pt, rules 0.4 mm. Kicker 10 pt small caps.
Pre-production check
At 8 pt in the results table the flare at the stem junction closes and the figures read as a grey band in a dense column. Keep tables at 9 pt or above, and proof one page at 1:1 before the run.
Summer-league schedule, field sign and shirt back
A seventies condensed grotesk is the lettering a summer league already prints on its schedules, so a card in it looks official rather than homemade. The narrow stems fit a full fixture list on one A5 card, and one ink prints the card and the field sign from the same separation.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Schedule card 148 x 210 mm, header 30 mm, fixtures 9 mm, 12 mm margins. Field sign 900 x 600 mm, word 120 mm, 25 mm margins. Shirt back 300 x 400 mm, word 90 mm, 20 mm margins.
Pre-production check
On a 148 x 210 mm schedule at 9 mm the condensed figures print with clogged counters on an office laser and the dates become unreadable. Raise fixtures to 10 mm or set the dates in a wider companion, and print one card on the actual printer.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Sans serif · Clean 1970s athletic & editorial condensed grotesk (PUA, OTF & TTF)
- Foundry / creator
- CraftedType Studio
- Glyph encoding
- PUA encoded — swashes & alternates open in Character Map (Windows) and Font Book (Mac)
- Glyph encoding
- PUA encoded for character-map access
- File formats mentioned
- OTF, TTF
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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