A modern sans serif with open round forms

The ”round“ letters emphasize the condensed open oval; the light counter forms provide the rhythm of the typeface, causing the typeface to appear gentle and pleasing. The ”modern“ design of a and g being especially contributive here.
 
All of the letters are recognizably narrow, almost ”condensed,“ the forms being very functionally shaped. The construction of the ”triangular“ upper case letters A M N V W as well as v and w, especially catches the eye with the shafts joined together as beams are stacked upon each other. 
With this construction JOSEF displays a down-to-earth touch.

Contrary to the classical sans serifs, a few letters were given light echoes of serifs which promote fluency: a d l are displayed below the line in a reading direction and end in a compressed but also very short serif style; on m n p r the upstroke is gently displayed and on u the downstroke.

For all the typo-maniacs among you designers there are alternative forms for a number of letters in Josef: A B D G I M R W and a d f g j l ß u. Even an antiquated ”long“ s and an upper case ß is available.

Plus, Josef includes numerous ligatures which can save that little bit of space where required and which allow the typeface to appear more variable: ch, ck, ct, fi, fj, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, ft, mm, ti, tt, tz.
 
All additional functions can be activated and deactivated as OpenType-Features:

Stylistic Alternates:
replaces the letters A, B, D, G, I, M, R, W, a, d, f, g, j, l, ß, u in each case with the alternative variant.

Ligatures:
replaces the letter pairs ct, fi, fj, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, ft, ti, tt, tz with the respective letter combination.

Discretionary Ligatures:
replaces the letter pairs ch, ck, mm with the respective letter combination and SS, SZ with capital-ß.

Tabular Numbers:
replaces the normal numbers by means of tabular numbers with identical sign width.

Fractions:
replaces the glyph combinations 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 etc by the according fractions.

Slashed Zero:
replaces the normal »open« 0 by the slashed version.

Small Caps:
replaces the small letters by capital letters in x-height.

Historical Forms:
replaces s with ”long s“ and SS i.e., SZ with capital-ß.

Stylistic Set 1:
replaces the »round« form of a and g by the »two storied« alternate form; the cyrillic а and д are replaced by the alternate form.

Stylistic Set 2:
replaces the short form of f and ß by the alternate form with descender; the cyrillic г and т are replaced by the alternate form.

Stylistic Set 3:
replaces the capitals B R M W by the narrow alternates and the minuscules d j l u by the version without the displayed downstroke; the cyrillic В and М are replaced by the alternate form.

Stylistic Set 4:
activates all alternative letter forms; identical with stylistic alternates.

Stylistic Set 5:
replaces the numbers 1 to 20 by circled numbers.

Stylistic Set 6:
replaces the numbers 1 to 20 by negative circled numbers.