Transducer

  • Condensed Hairline
  • Condensed Hairline Oblique
  • Condensed Regular
  • Condensed Regular Oblique
  • Condensed Medium
  • Condensed Medium Oblique
  • Condensed Bold
  • Condensed Bold Oblique
  • Condensed Black
  • Condensed Black Oblique
  • Hairline
  • Hairline Oblique
  • Regular
  • Regular Oblique
  • Medium
  • Medium Oblique
  • Bold
  • Bold Oblique
  • Black
  • Black Oblique
  • Extended Hairline
  • Extended Hairline Oblique
  • Extended Regular
  • Extended Regular Oblique
  • Extended Medium
  • Extended Medium Oblique
  • Extended Bold
  • Extended Bold Oblique
  • Extended Black
  • Extended Black Oblique

Transducer Extended Bold

Cymometer
TERAHERTZ

Transducer Hairline

Electrodynamics
PHANTASATRON

Transducer Condensed Medium Oblique

Chrominance-To-Luminance
MONOCHROME MODULATOR

Transducer Extended Hairline Oblique

This product satisfies FCC regulations when shielded cables and connectors are used

Transducer Medium

Load Classification Number (LCN) curves are no longer provided in section 7.6 and 7.8

Transducer Condensed Black

To prevent electromagnetic interference with electric appliances such as radios and televisions, use shielded cables and connectors

Transducer Regular

The ⏹/⏏ button in the LD control section cannot be used to open/close the disc table. Pressing ⏸ again resumes playback from the position where it was paused. The highest-power tube currently available is the Eimac 4CM2500KG, a forced water-cooled power tetrode capable of dissipating 2.5 megawatts. Timing accuracy is better than ±0.14% in all modes of operation. Set Trigger Sensitivity, But HDS3102M-N Is Set At 0.3div. Longitudinal angular tip-off rate < 0.6°/s. Medium impedance is considered between 600Ω and 10 kΩ. The inertia reel (Fig. 3-4) is a two position locking device. The inertia reel (Fig. 3-4) is a two position locking device. Meets specifications on spaces of ambient temperature range 40° to 100°F.

Transducer Regular Oblique

The ⏹/⏏ button in the LD control section cannot be used to open/close the disc table. Pressing ⏸ again resumes playback from the position where it was paused. The highest-power tube currently available is the Eimac 4CM2500KG, a forced water-cooled power tetrode capable of dissipating 2.5 megawatts. Timing accuracy is better than ±0.14% in all modes of operation. Set Trigger Sensitivity, But HDS3102M-N Is Set At 0.3div. Longitudinal angular tip-off rate < 0.6°/s. Medium impedance is considered between 600Ω and 10 kΩ. The inertia reel (Fig. 3-4) is a two position locking device. The inertia reel (Fig. 3-4) is a two position locking device. Meets specifications on spaces of ambient temperature range 40° to 100°F.

About Transducer

Turntables, CD players, tube amplifiers, Gemini rockets, CRT screens, helical scan videotape. There was a time when technology wasn't nearly as seamless as purports to be today. Things were big. They had a noticeable presence and left an impression. Vacuum tubes glowed, turntables popped, videotape distorted. Everything had a learning curve and required a manual. Interfaces were an array of labeled dials and switches. It’s from that history that Transducer took its cues.

It’s no shock that the result is a squarish sans serif typeface—a style that is ubiquitious with electronics. What Transducer seeks to do is add some humanity; to capture the feelings of the old equipment—the hums and the distortion of a hand-soldered circuit board.

Some of the quirks typically associated with this style have been changed to aid legibility. The traditional modernist approach of attempting to make every letter as similar as possible to every other letter has been lessened here (compare the lowercase t in Transducer with the t in Microgramma). A high x-height helps make it easier to read at a glance—a necessity when designing for interfaces and diagrams. It also comes in a large array of weights and widths. In its attempt to be more humanist and incorporate the pops and hums of analog equipment, also eschews perfectly straight vertical lines. The vertical strokes feature a nearly imperceptible tapering towards the middle—a nod back to imperfections found in and on the equipment which inspired the typeface. Finding the balance here was critical to the whole typeface; too much taper and it would lose its mechanical roots, too little and it would feel to sterile. I should have kept track of the hours spent pivoting from one side to the other (and the subsequent corrections that needed to take place across the whole typeface after an adjustment was made). This gives a slight warmth to the typeface, something lacking from most of its brethren.

OpenType Features

Default
Activated
Tabular Numbers
012345
01234 01234
Oldstyle Numbers
012345
012345
Superscript & Subscript
012345
01234567890
Numerator & Denominator
012345
01234567890
Stylistic Set 1
Yrt
Yrt

Design Notes

Transducer features a large x-height to allow counter forms to be as large as possible to make it easy to read text at a glance.
The alternate lowercase “r” can help text fit in tight spots.
Horizontal and vertical terminals are just slightly tilted inward to add some character and momentum.
Diagonal letters feature flat horizontals at the apex where the diagonal strokes meet to allow for larger counters in the condensed styles. It also create less negative space between the letter and its neighbors.
The fractions in Transducer are designed to work just as well condensed and expanded, thanks to their split-bar design.
As Transducer is based on analog technology, the vertical stems aren’t completely square; there is an extremely subtle flare at the ends of the strokes.
For UI work, Transducer includes a host of symbols, drawn to work perfectly with capital-height letters.

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