SST (typeface)

SST
Monotype
Date released	2013

SST is a humanist

Thai, Hebrew, Japanese and Arabic.^[2]^[3] It is modelled after Helvetica (Sony's previous typeface) and Frutiger.^[4] SST is used on Sony's product packaging, operating instructions, websites, TV menus, in PlayStation 4 and on the Xperia smartphone.^[2]

Notes and references

^ "One typeface, 93 languages for Sony". Monotype Imaging. 6 October 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
^ ^a ^b Iris Lješnjanin (2015-04-02). "An interview with type designer Akira Kobayashi – "Letters Do Not Stand By Themselves"". Smashing Magazine.com.
^ "Sony Design | Design Projects | SST Type Project". Sony Global. 18 December 2013.
^ "SST Type Project Special Interview With Type Director Akira Kobayashi". Sony Global. 11 December 2013.

External links

Luc Devroye. "Sony Design". Type Design Information Page.

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1910s	Veronese (1911) and Italian Old Style (1919) Forum Title (1911) Imprint (1912) Plantin (1913) Caslon Old Face (1915)
1920s	Garamont (1921) Bodoni (1921) Garamond (1922) Baskerville (1923) Blado (1923) Italian Old Style (Goudy, 1924/7) Fournier (1925) Goudy Heavy (1925) Engravers Horley Old Style Grotesque 215 (1926) Barbou (1926, private use) Bernard MT Gallia Othello (1928) Lutetia Perpetua (1928) Pastonchi (1928) Gill Sans (1928 onwards) Arrighi (1929) Bembo (1929) Deepdene (1929) Goudy Sans (1929) Solus (c. 1929)
1930s	Lutetia (1930) Ashley Crawford (1930) Braggadocio (1930) Bell (1931) Leysbourne Placard Kino Script Falstaff Inflex Littleworth Times New Roman (1932) Zarotto/Mardersteig (1932) Monoline Script Walbaum (1933) Jocunda (1933) Rockwell (1934) Colmcille Runic Menhart Felix Titling (1934) Tempest Titling Van Dijck (1935) Fontana (for Collins) (1935) Grock (1935) Gwendolin (for the Greynog Press) (1935) Emerson (1936) Gill Kayo Romulus (1936) Albertus (1935-9) Bulmer (for R & R Clark) (1937) Joanna (for J.M. Dent) (1937) Twentieth Century Ehrhardt (1937) Van Dijck (1937) Pegasus (1937) Matura (1938) Sachsenwald Haarlemmer Palace and Dorchester Script (1938)
1940s	Figaro (1940)
1950s	Condensa (1951) Festival Titling (1951) Spectrum (1955) Angelus Klang (1955) Ashley Script (1956) Swing Headline Bold Castellar (1957) Mercurius (1957) Dante (1957) Joanna (general release) (1958) Pepita (1959)
1960s	New Clarendon (1960) Univers (1961) Octavian (1961) Fontana (public release) (1961) Forte Apollo (1962) Traveller Albertina (1964) Cartier New Berolina Sabon (1967) Fleet Titling (1967) Barbou (general release)
1970s	Photina (1972) News Plantin (1979) Calvert (1979)
1980s	Nimrod (1980) Arial Footlight Calisto Cantoria
1990s	Ellington (1990) Amasis Century Gothic Book Antiqua Curlz Carré Noir Columbus (1992) Strayhorn (1995) Cachet Gill Facia
2000s	Neo Sans Slate
2010s	Classic Grotesque (2012/2016) SST (2013) Joanna Sans (2015)
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