You’ll notice Synt has a particular rhythm. Its unique flow comes from the fact its reference material was a form of unitized type: De Vinne often used metal-cast letters with specified widths to speed up the typesetting process, allowing typesetters to compose justified text by hand quickly.
Synt takes the functional logic of these systems into digital space, celebrating the unitized rhythm as a beautiful design feature in its own right (with the added bonus of translating seamlessly to pixels for hinting).
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