A traditional sans serif with that certain something — very legible

»Wendelin« is a classic sans serif in the style of the early “grotesque scripts” from the 19th century. But its characters have some very individual details which are not found in any historical model.
  
slanted stems of M
  
l with a slightly flared “foot”
  
slightly bowed stems similar to serifs on the lower case characters
  
slanted endings (in upright fonts) resp. rectangular endings (in italic fonts) on horizontal stems 
  
rounded counter in h, n, m
  
some remarkable letterforms in italics
  
extraordinary ligatures
  
several figure variations
  
small caps

The slightly bowed stroke endings which nearly look like serifs are characteristic of »Wendelin« and lend greater legibility to the font.

The italic versions of »Wendelin« are based on true italics with clearly rounder detail forms and not just slanted variations of the upright form, even though a and g retain the basic form of the upright version. Also, the italic f has a descender, the e is round, and k is open and rounder as well as r.

»Wendelin« was the sans serif text typeface of the magazine “motion” in 1997. Godfather of the design was the »Franklin Gothic«, again popular at this time. Only a few versions of the »1997 Wendelin« were actually achieved, so that's why…

… I revised »Wendelin« in order to complete the font family, as well as to bring it up to date technically with OpenType Features for ligatures and tabular figures, and in the Pro-Version with Unicode support for all European languages along with Greek, Turkish, Vietnamese and Cyrillic.

The font family consists of the upright and italic in weights from Thin to ExtraBold.