TP Sky Round

Overview

TP Sky is a genuine font family that is suited to screens. The sans-serif strokes, which tend to be monotonous, are modulated to produce rich expression. TP Sky is the first Japanese font to incorporate three design attributes: weight, contrast and character width. This font family, which allows users to choose the roundness of the corners, boosts the TP Sky line-up of fonts. Recent years have seen an increased in use of modulated sans-serif fonts around the world. Even though they are slowly being used more frequently in the Japan market, there are limited choices among Japanese fonts. Modulated sans-serif Round fonts are also few, so we developed Round 50 and Round 100 with five weights each as part of the TP Sky series, for which demand was high. Round 50 is a slightly milder TP Sky, which has a sharp quality. Round 100 is a clear, round Gothic, with a controlled softness. All 30 fonts in the Round series, which rapidly spread the use of TP Sky in fields, such as food, fashion, cosmetics and entertainment, allow designers to select the ideal font depending on the purpose and use.

Concept

TP Sky Round is a modern font that combines intellect and gentleness by softening the overall sharp expressiveness of TP Sky, while upholding the TP Sky design philosophy of a sans-serif font that is compact and clear with a high purity. With “sky” as the base concept, we assigned the metaphorical keywords of “cloudy” to Sky Round 50 and “rainy” to Sky Round 100. We created the TP Sky Round family to display various expressions through the Round 50 and Round 100 fonts, and their weights and contrast levels, as we thought of how the sky looks as it changes from one moment to the next.

Features

Based on the TP Sky font design with its high visibility, the TP Sky Round fonts have the stroke tips rounded for marked improvement in usability and ease of familiarity. Not only designed for use in logos and katakana words, the fonts can be comfortably read when used in regular text, too. Unlike the AXIS Font family, which was developed for use in horizontal layouts, the TP Sky series was carefully conceived so it can also be stable in vertical layouts.

Round 50

TP Sky Round 50 changes the radius of the rounded corners according to weight, and aims to unify the visual balance and impression to achieve the same roundness no matter the weight. Since we are working with a modulated sans-serif font, we could adjust the finer details, giving the Low Contrast tips the roundness of two perfect circles and High Contrast tips the roundness of one.

Round 100

TP Sky Round 100 differs to AXIS Round, which has perfectly rounded tips, through the use of an 85% flat circle. The attributes of the oval tips are in the stroke direction, as opposed to a perfect circle and its strong, static appearance. The tips are the ideal shape and expression for drawing out the efficiency of a modulated sans-serif font with a brushstroke-like quality. After using software to process the font, we adjusted it manually.

Family

TP Sky Round family of 30 fonts consists of Round 50 and Round 100 in five weights (Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium and Bold) and three contrast levels (High, Middle and Low). The entire family is highly useful with regards to consistency and quality, which is the essence of branding. The TP Sky Round family aims to be a new standard in the modulated sans-serif category, suitable for use in a wide range of fields and situations.

Specification