SST (typeface)

SST
Category	Sans-serif
Classification	Humanist
Commissioned by	Sony
Foundry	Monotype
Date released	2013

SST is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Monotype for Sony.^[1] It supports the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets and has matching styles for Thai, Hebrew, Japanese and Arabic.^[2]^[3] It is modelled after Helvetica (Sony’s previous typeface) and Frutiger.^[4] SST is used on Sony’s product packaging, operating instructions, websites, TV menus, in Playstation 4 and on the Xperia smartphone.^[2]

Notes and references

↑ "One typeface, 93 languages for Sony". Monotype Imaging. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
1 2 Iris Lješnjanin (2015-04-02). "An interview with type designer Akira Kobayashi – "Letters Do Not Stand By Themselves"". Smashing Magazine.com.
↑ "Sony Design | Design Projects | SST Type Project". Sony Global.
↑ "SST Type Project Special Interview With Type Director Akira Kobayashi". Sony Global.

External links

Luc Devroye. "Sony Design". Type Design Information Page.

Monotype typefaces

1900s	Binny Old Style

1910s	Imprint Plantin

1920s	Garamond Bodoni Poliphilus Blado Fournier Engravers Baskerville Horley Old Style Grotesque Colonna Bernard MT Gallia Pastonchi Gill Sans Othello Lutetia Solus Perpetua Centaur with Arrighi Bembo

1930s	Bell Braggadocio Leysbourne Placard Kino Script Falstaff Inflex Littleworth Times New Roman Walbaum Monoline Script Rockwell Colmcille Runic Menhart Ashley Crawford Felix Titling Tempest Titling Van Dijck Emerson Gwendolin Gill Kayo Romulus Albertus Joanna (for private use) Twentieth Century Ehrhardt Pegasus Matura Sachsenwald Haarlemmer Bulmer

1940s	Figaro

1950s	Festival Titling Spectrum Angelus Klang Ashley Script Fontana Swing Castellar Headline Bold Mercurius Script Joanna (general release) Dante Pepita

1960s	Octavian Forte Apollo Traveller Albertina Cartier New Berolina Fleet Titling Sabon Barbou

1970s	Photina

1980s	Calvert Nimrod Arial Footlight Calisto Cantoria

1990s	Amasis Century Gothic Book Antiqua Curlz Carré Noir Gill Facia Cachet

2000s	Neo Sans Slate

2010s	Joanna Sans

Release dates are approximate only. Not all typefaces shown.

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