Student: Vitor Almeida
Typeface: ABC Monument Grotesk (2018)
Classification: Early Sans-Serif / Grotesque
Archetype: Palmer & Rey’s 1884 New Specimen Book
Main Features Highlighted by Student: Digitized by Kasper-Florio and Dinamo from a historical online scan. The student highlights its compact skeleton, stark vertical contrast, surprisingly sharp terminal endings, and its deliberately “unrefined, honest, and raw” unpolished aesthetics. The entry maps out its comprehensive weight range expansion, from Extralight to Ultra, including Mono and Semi-Mono subfamilies. PDF+ 2
Best Practices & Execution: A highly competent review of systemic font families. The student successfully highlights the morphological differences between proportional, Mono, and Semi-Mono spacing structures, showing how a single historic skeleton can be reconfigured systematically into distinct utility divisions for contemporary digital use.
Acknowledgement & Transparency Note: This synthesis and portfolio entry was compiled, structured, and edited with the assistance of Google Gemini 3.5 Pro, in alignment with the course syllabus, exercise assignment and evaluation criteria.