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	Old Style (1901) Modern Extended (1902) French Round Face (1906) Scotch Roman (1907 and 1920) Goudy Light (1908)

1910s	Veronese (1911) Forum Title (1911) Italian Old Style (1911) Imprint (1912) Plantin (1913) Caslon Old Face (1915)

1920s	Garamont (1921) Bodoni (1921) Garamond (1922) Baskerville (1923) Poliphilus and Blado (1923) Fournier (1925) Goudy Heavy (1925) Engravers Horley Old Style Grotesque (1926) Barbou (1926, private use) Colonna Bernard MT Gallia Pastonchi Othello Lutetia Solus Perpetua (1928) Gill Sans (1928 onwards) Centaur with Arrighi (1929) Bembo (1929) Deepdene (1929) Goudy Sans (1929)

1930s	Lutetia (1930) Bell (1931) Braggadocio Leysbourne Placard Kino Script Falstaff Inflex Littleworth Times New Roman (1932) Monoline Script Rockwell (1933) Walbaum (1933) Colmcille Runic Menhart Ashley Crawford Felix Titling Tempest Titling Van Dijck (1935) Emerson (1936) Gwendolin Gill Kayo Romulus (1936) Albertus Joanna (1937, for private use) Twentieth Century Ehrhardt (1937) Van Dijck (1937) Pegasus (1937) Matura (1938) Sachsenwald Haarlemmer Bulmer (private use)

1940s	Figaro

1950s	Festival Titling Spectrum (1955) Angelus Klang (1955) Ashley Script Fontana Swing Castellar (1957) Headline Bold Mercurius Script Dante (1959) Joanna (general release) (1958) Pepita (1959)

1960s	Univers (1961) Octavian (1961) Fontana (1961) Forte Apollo (1962) Traveller Albertina (1964) Cartier New Berolina Sabon (1966) Bulmer (1967) (general release) Fleet Titling (1967) Barbou (general release)

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 (2015)

Release dates are approximate only. Not all typefaces shown.

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