Genera was designed by Wahyu Wibowo and published by Wahyu and Sani Co.. Genera contains 44 styles and family package options. The font is currently #10 in Hot New Fonts.
Genera is low contrast and neutral typeface for general design use. It was designed based on grotesque typefaces’ tradition with a unique touch to give the typeface its own personality. It has large x-height, generous width, almost consistent monoline look on all weights and the most noticeable part is the unique terminal form of lowercase ‘f’, ‘j’, ‘r’, and ‘y’ which have straight horizontal side and curved line in the other side.
Genera has its twin brother which has additional Alt on its name which stands for Alternate.The alternate glyphs letterform was influenced by Futura with its simple geometric form, which make this Alt version less legible than the basic one and makes it suitable for display purposes.
Genera font family has 44 members and consists of:
– 4 variable fonts (basic version; upright and oblique, alternate version; upright and oblique),
– 40 single fonts (basic version; upright and oblique in 10 weights, alternate version; upright and oblique in 10 weights).
Each font has 470+ glyphs which covers Western and Eastern Europe Latin based languages. Each font file is also equipped with some OpenType layout Features; Ordinal, Superior, Stylistic Alternates, Proportional Figure, Fraction, Numerator and Denominator.
