KAPITAL A typeface by design studio Superfried

Kapital is an elegant, geometric uppercase sans created by design studio Superfried. It is available in standard and stencil style across four weights – light | regular | medium | demi – covering 346 glyphs.

The original inspiration for the typographic design of the typeface is the capital character set from a previous commercial release – Basik. Continuing the clean, geometric aesthetics, Kapital was refined further to create a more minimal, consistent design style. This enabled the characters to discreetly perform their role – to simply convey the message of the writer without distraction.

In many typefaces, I have found the design of the uppercase to be disappointing, losing the distinctive character of the lowercase. Also, as the type weight is increased the form and style can deviate significantly from the original typographic design. This has been problematic on occasion.

For Kapital, to alleviate these issues, special attention to detail was applied to the form consistency of the glyphs across the weights and negative space throughout. With regard to negative space – although inevitable – wherever possible key letterforms were adjusted to alleviate this.

Kapital is now commercially available. It also serves creative agency Superfried well as a design tool, often forming the generic base characters from which to develop new bespoke typography and logotypes for design projects.