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Venis Family

by Chank DieselOctober 21, 2002

Although it is not the most academically correct font, the Venis family by Chank Diesel is clean, simple and elegant with nice contrast. Chank's creative liberties give Venis some unique qualities in its characters, which you'll especially notice in the signature lowercase y.

The Venis family was recently extended to six with extrabold additions. The complete Venis font set consists of Venis Regular, Venis Italic, Venis Bold, Venis Bold Italic, Venis Extrabold, and Venis Extrabold Italic.

The Venis fonts were created to look good in print materials–like newsletters, proposals, brochures, magazines, books, and other text-heavy paper products.

Another Venis idiosyncrasy–it rhymes with "tennis."

  1. link to this comment by John Downer Thu Oct 31, 2002

    The Venis family by Chank Diesel is: A. Clean B. Simple C. Elegant D. Nicely contrasty E. None of the above

  2. link to this comment by search engine optimization consulting Sat Apr 05, 2008

    I have to agree with John Downer. When I looked at the font there was nothing that said clean or elegant to me.

    It has its place somewhere but not in proposals or brochures.

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