![]() ✼OSMA« is an old greek word that stands for »beauty« and »order«, I thought it a very befitting name for my new font-family. The family includes five weights, ranging from a quite delicate Thin to a Bold whose heavy, thick strokes elegantly paint a strong contrast with the letters’ thins. This gives the typeface’s details the room they need to shine. Cosmetic’s letterforms appear slightly extended when compared with many other typefaces. Each font includes a more standard-looking ‘g’ as a stylistic alternate, as well as a narrower ‘f’ that may be automatically substituted into the text via a Contextual Alternates OpenType feature, to help it avoid colliding with certain letters that might follow it. Aside from its general elegance, the most gallic part of Cosmetic is its lowercase ‘g’, whose form calls back to some early 19th century Didot typefaces. ![]() Cosmetic does not disappoint it is a ‘French’ typeface, designed by Jean-Baptiste Morizot. ![]() For centuries, the fashion world has looked to France for inspiration. As its name implies, it has been developed for exquisite applications, like the corporate identity of fashion or beauty product firms, or for cosmetic product packaging design. ![]() Cosmetic is a very high-contrast family of sans serif fonts.
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