
Beyond broadcast Like Truman Burbank, the star of The Truman Show, FS Truman was born for TV. Youâll know it from Sky Oneâs on-screen trails and announcements, but itâs just as at home in other media. Its starting point was the skeleton of a highly legible, space-saving, corporate font with some of FS Dillonâs geometric discipline built in. Its distinctive tone of voice and âownabilityâ are in its boxy but friendly shapes, and characters with hybrid features. FS Trumanâs weights and widths were honed to work at TV screen resolutions. A face for TV it may have been, but this is a font that works on every level, on screen, in print, in headlines, in listings, in longer text, in tight corners and open spaces. The space-saver Compact, condensed but crystal clear, FS Truman comes into its own where a lot needs to be said in not a lot of space. Its letter spacing allows the type room to breathe, even at small sizes, while its fulsome x-height and diminutive descenders pave the way for tighter leading. A natural for headlines and titles over three or four lines. âHybridâ features With every font, Fontsmith look for crafty new ways to imbue letterforms with a consistent character. The idea with FS Truman was to introduce âhybridâ features. In open letters such as âcâ and âsâ, for example, the top terminals have straight, vertical cuts while their lower terminals have a more angular, cursive finish. Boxy, spacious forms with unusual curves and angles create not just highly legible and efficient letters but strongly distinctive ones, too.