🔬Fonts in Focus: Evert

Fonts in Focus: Evert

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.
 

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.
 

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.