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GHS

GHS™

by HouseOfBurvo
Licenses from $38.00 USD
Complete family of 12 fonts: $115.00 USD
GHS Font Family was designed by Matthew Burvill and published by HouseOfBurvo. GHS contains 24 styles family package options.

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    GHS Complete

    12 fonts

    Best Value!

    • GHS Light

    • GHS Light B Stress

    • GHS Light C Hairlines

    • GHS Light Oblique

    • GHS Light Oblique B Stress

    • GHS Light Oblique C Hairlines

    • GHS Heavy

    • GHS Heavy B Stress

    • GHS Heavy C Hairlines

    • GHS Heavy Oblique

    Per Style:

    $9.58 USD

    Pack of 12 styles:

    $115.00 USD

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    GHS Light

    3 fonts
    • GHS Light

    • GHS Light B Stress

    • GHS Light C Hairlines

    Per Style:

    $12.66 USD

    Pack of 3 styles:

    $38.00 USD

    • GHS Light Oblique

    • GHS Light Oblique B Stress

    • GHS Light Oblique C Hairlines

    Per Style:

    $12.66 USD

    Pack of 3 styles:

    $38.00 USD

    GHS Heavy

    3 fonts
    • GHS Heavy

    • GHS Heavy B Stress

    • GHS Heavy C Hairlines

    Per Style:

    $12.66 USD

    Pack of 3 styles:

    $38.00 USD

    • GHS Heavy Oblique

    • GHS Heavy Oblique B Stress

    • GHS Heavy Oblique C Hairlines

    Per Style:

    $12.66 USD

    Pack of 3 styles:

    $38.00 USD

    About the family


    GHS is an original font from HouseOfBurvo, designed and made by Matthew Burvill. GHS stands for Geometric Hairline Serif, it is a serif typeface that is geometric in structure, it has strong vertical stress and its stroke is hairline thin. This gives it a fashionable, stylish appearance for headlines and display. The font has been designed to work primarily as any other font, but it also has special features that can add an extra dimension to your design. This feature is Layering. When using GHS you set your type with the "Key" font, and then when you're happy with your layout, you can change the font to a layer containing only the Hairlines, and then copy and paste your text on top and change this second layer to a font containing only the Stress parts. You can then exercise more control over the appearance of your text than with any other typeface of its kind; for instance, you can offset your layers for varying degrees of distress, or use separate colors for each layer. You could treat one layer with a spot varnish so the text only becomes legible when reflecting light, or foil block the stress over the hairlines. You could even use the layers independently on an acetate sheet so the text is only readable with a "decoding" sheet. This font has many possibilities, and the specimen document intends to show some of these and how to create them.

    Designers: Matthew Burvill

    Publisher: HouseOfBurvo

    Foundry: HouseOfBurvo

    Design Owner: HouseOfBurvo

    MyFonts debut: Apr 15, 2010

    GHS™ is a trademark of HouseOfBurvo.

    About HouseOfBurvo

    HouseOfBurvo started as a portfolio website for showcasing the degree work of Matthew Burvill and other personal projects. Many of these personal projects were experiments into lettering—mostly concerned with basic geometric constructions, and how the basics of a latin alphabet are constructed. These were eventually released as fonts and from then on Matthew was hooked. HouseOfBurvo is now concentrating entirely on the development of ...

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