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Inspired by Edward Johnston's type for the London Underground and Eric Gill's eponymous Gill Sans®, but copying neither, Camphor™ is a font design where tradition inspires function. Driven by a determination to avoid all calligraphic allusions, such as angular stress and organic asymmetry, it is significantly narrower than Johnston's type and avoids the quirks of Gill Sans, making for clean and cool, modern sans serif that lends itself to everything from branding and wayfinding to advertising and editorial design. The aim was to draw a modern, uncluttered sans serif family with classical proportions, unashamedly English but with fewer idiosyncrasies than its influential forerunners. Despite it lack of embellishments, Camphor resists the sterility of other faces designed on the same premise. It is a lean, self assured, legible, and versatile type and comes in six weights, from thin to heavy, all with corresponding italics, small caps, alternates, and broad support for Central and Eastern European langauages.

Camphor is available from Fonts.com, Linotype.com and ITCFonts.com in OpenType Standard and Pro formats and is also available to commercial subscribers of Fonts.com Web Fonts. A pdf can be viewed here.

“New sans serif typefaces are released almost daily. The list of truly versatile and distinctive new sans serif designs, however, isn't that long. Most new designs are, at best, yeoman designs. There are, nevertheless, jewels among the rough—a few new sans serif typefaces that are genuinely remarkable; designs that strike that delicate balance between distinction and versatility and address real-world graphic communication needs. While many new sans serifs will fade into the long tail of digital font availability, a few, including Camphor, have what it takes to become true typographic classics. ”
Allan Haley, Director of Words & Letters, Monotype Imaging