Fonts in Focus: Evert — I Love Typography Ltd

Welcome to another edition of Fonts in Focus, our under-500-word reviews of great typefaces. Today, we focus on a recent release from Kostas Bartsokas of Foundry5. Evert is a large, thoroughly modern sans serif family that has been designed with a lot of thought to the details. It draws inspiration from Miller and Richard’s Grotesque No.1, Roger Excoffon’s Antique Olive, and, more recently, Evert Bloemsma’s splendid FF Balance.

Icons and ornaments from Evert, including a ‘pinkie manicule.’

Evert’s most distinctive feature is its deep-cut ‘ink traps.. In the heaviest weights they serve a mostly decorative function, but in the lighter text weights they do lighten the color of the text block. Those deep, incised ink-traps are, in a sense, the inverse of the flared thorn-like terminals in lowercase letters like e , t and s , which lend the typeface a subtle left-to-right motion — a design detail that serves it especially well at text sizes.

Evert Black italic: Note the subtle rhythm and white space created by the convex stems and the razor-sharp inside terminals.

A bunch of fun icons and alternatives, including a heart-themed exclamation point, giant quotes, and some cool ornaments, including a delightfully fun pinkie manicule, are pleasant surprises and welcome additions. All stems are subtly convex and so terminate with equally subtle flares. The resulting white space between tall-stemmed letters (note the highlighted orange infill between ll in “Gill on,” above.

Although I’ve highlighted only the heaviest weights here — and they are rather striking and ideal for injecting some personality into editorial design and titles — Evert also performs exceptionally well in text, making it particularly useful for broader editorial design and as web fonts.

Evert works well in text too. Left: Evert Light | Right: Evert Light with 2% tracking.

Evert is available in 48 styles across 3 optical sizes and as variable fonts, with script support for Latin and Greek and very broad language support, including Vietnamese.

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