Stamen

What is the Stamen Font?

Stamen is the answer to a big question: What would happen if one tried to create a typeface that was ‘out of time’? If a type designer was to turn off the internet and put away the type specimens and just try to explore limbic, phantom history, what might that look like?. No slavish explorations of the past. No gropings toward the future. No exhaustive core sample of the contemporary. Instead, using what one remembers of history and our collective vision of the future (usually a future imagined from the past) and channeling that into something that is, hopefully, new… The Bentons meet Frutiger for a Manhattan on a space station while Matthew Carter sways to the sweet sounds of the chorale that occasionally played through the halls of Stephenson Blake.
This smear of implicit history expressed without explicit reference—this is Stamen: a family of 12 typefaces with a ton of alternate characters.. The bold weight was designed for the LP “I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler” (http://ittfwbc.com/) by the band YACHT in response to their request for a typeface that was ‘lost in time’, and refers to neither strict historical models nor purely futuristic forms.

Stamen Font Families

When you download Stamen, the family will include the following font styles:

• Stamen Thin
• Stamen Thin Italic
• Stamen Extra Light
• Stamen Extra Light Italic
• Stamen Light
• Stamen Light Italic
• Stamen Regular
• Stamen Italic
• Stamen Bold
• Stamen Bold Italic
• Stamen Heavy
• Stamen Heavy Italic

Preview of the Stamen Font

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Who Designed the Stamen Font?

Stamen was designed by Ian Lynam.

This font has 12 style(s) and was published by Wordshape.

Is Stamen a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Stamen is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Stamen. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Stamen for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Stamen if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Stamen to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Stamen for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Stamen, it was available for as little as $25.00.