Lawabo
A Rounded Sans with Smallcaps and Small Caps
Fonts
Regular
Krötenwanderungen
Regular Italic
Chemicobiological
Medium
Rettungsschwimmer
Medium Italic
Thermalbadehäuser
Semibold
Nacktnasenwombats
Semibold Italic
Superimpregnation
Bold
Feuerwehrschlauch
Bold Italic
Warmwasserheizung
Extrabold
Badsammansättning
Extrabold Italic
Siège de toilette
Black
Muschelmaskierung
Black Italic
Bathythermographs
About Lawabo
- The idea for Lawabo was born many, many years ago in the head of Schriftlabor founder Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer, and inspired by bathroom ceramics, hence the name. As you would expect it, the shapes are simplified to a minimum and rounded at the edges. The typeface started its life as the title lettering of the mekka blue webcomic in the mid-noughties. It has undergone a plethora of reworkings, and at long last, Schriftlabor member Miriam Surányi cleaned up Lawabo and added the italics.
- Lawabo sports a low cap height and has smallcaps, therefore it is ‘a rounded sans with small caps and smallcaps’.
- 9 figure styles and optional slashed zeros: tabular lining, proportional lining, tabular oldstyle, proportional oldstyle, smallcap, subscript, superscript, denominator and numerator (for fractions)
- Each Lawabo font contains no less than 850 glyphs, including the capital German sharp S. The complete family of 12 fonts has more than 10,000 glyphs.
- Lawabo has combining accents that allow you to put any accent on any letter. Yes, even a hungarumlaut on an x or a ring on the v: x̋v̊.
- Lawabo supports at least 210 languages, probably more: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Bashkir, Basque, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Chinese Pinyin, Cimbrian, Cofan, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Han, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcak, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istroromanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jerriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Ladin, Latin, Latino Sine, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Marquesan, Meglenoromanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinhpatha, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Qeqchi, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari, Sami Lule, Sami Nothern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian Lower, Sorbian Upper, Sotho Northern, Sotho Southern, Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Voro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waraywaray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wikmungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni
The People behind Lawabo
Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
Rainer Erich (‘Eric’) Scheichelbauer was born in Vienna, and studied photography, philosophy and Dutch. Today, he creates and produces typefaces, teaches type design, and translates Dutch books into German. Internationally, he is known for his involvement with the font editor Glyphs, for which he has been writing tutorials and handbooks.
Miriam Surányi
Miriam Surányi graduated from the Graphische in Vienna with emphasis on typography. There she participated in a two-year type design curriculum. Today, alongside her daytime job as type producer at Schriftlabor, she is finishing up her first own typeface family.