Gulliver

De vez en cuando, para ahorrar papel uno imprime sin dejar márgenes y con un tamaño de fuente mínimo, que hace difícil su lectura, y como consecuencia, lo que nos ahorramos en papel nos lo gastamos en tiempo, gelocatiles o en gafas graduadas. Gerard Unger es diseñador gráfico y se dedica a crear tipografías diferentes; entre ellas, Gulliver, una fuente creada en 1993 tomando como premisas la legibilidad y el ahorro de espacio. Al usar esta fuente en nuestros documentos podemos ahorrarnos un 8% de papel -si lo comparamos con el uso de una Times New Roman 10-, ya que optimiza el espacio entre letras y palabras sin dejar de ser legible. A partir de ahora, se acabaron los dolores de cabeza por culpa de leer letras minúsculas.

Gulliver (1993) grew out of experiments with legibility and space-saving. Its counters as large as possible, as is its x-height (as a result of which its ascenders and descenders are short). The effect is that Gulliver in 10-point looks much larger than a type like Times in the same size. To produce the same impression of size as 10-point Times, Gulliver needs only be printed in 8.5-point. With its short serifs (in which it is the opposite of Swift) the letters are close together, allowing the printer to save space on the page. This means that using Gulliver — which was designed first and foremost as a newsface — allows a printer either to place more text on the page. Gulliver is used not only for its good legibility and space-saving characteristics but also because it is liked by both older and younger readers (older readers say they can read the paper again, while younger readers say the paper looks modern).

+: Gerard Unger
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