{"id":316,"date":"2007-08-23T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/kontrapunkt-typeface\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T04:05:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:05:41","slug":"kontrapunkt-typeface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/typography\/kontrapunkt-typeface\/","title":{"rendered":"Kontrapunkt typeface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most free typefaces are worth about what you pay for them. But the Danish design firm Kontrapunkt (I think the word means &#8220;counterpoint&#8221;) has released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kontrapunkt.dk\/news\/ddprize_typeface_of_the_year_2004#downloads\" title=\"kontrapunkt typeface free download\" target=\"_blank\">its fine corporate typeface in type 1 format as a free download<\/a>. Designed by Bo Linneman, it was awarded the Danish Design Prize for best  typeface in 2004. Kontrapunkt is a square slab serif available in light and bold versions. It&#8217;s a highly legible face reminiscent of Eurostile. On the Kontrapunkt website it is used in headers in all caps, which further accentuates its squareness (maybe a little too much). Because it has been offered as a free download for a few years now, it might be starting to look a bit familiar, but it&#8217;s still a good, functional face. Here&#8217;s what it looks like with a variety of text faces.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/kontrapunkt.jpg\" title=\"kontrapunkt free typeface\" alt=\"kontrapunkt free typeface\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For something similar, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emigre.com\/fontpage.php?PChoSlR.html\" title=\"cholla slab\" target=\"_blank\">Cholla Slab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most free typefaces are worth about what you pay for them. But the Danish design firm Kontrapunkt (I think the word means &#8220;counterpoint&#8221;) has released its fine corporate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}