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Dossier downloadDesigners: William Dwiggins, Toshi Omagari
Publisher: Tabular Type Foundry
Dossier was designed by William Dwiggins, Toshi Omagari and published by Tabular Type Foundry. Dossier contains 16 styles and family package options. The font is currently #29 in Hot New Fonts. 

Dossier is a monospaced serif face that originates in Dwiggins's designs for typewriter. It has a soft and casual personality and comes in 8 weights and matching italics, making it ideal for text typography, package and advertisement design.

Dossier is an adaptation of William Addison Dwiggins's unfinished typewriter faces. He worked with multiple typewriter manufactures including Underwood, Remington Rand, and IBM, but none of them were finished. He left a number of intriguing drawings which are now kept at the Boston Public Library. You could see in the drawings that Dwiggins was also interested in exploring designs of varied width.

Toshi Omagari decided to combine these materials to make a cohesive family: the upright was taken from a drawing of monospaced lowercase for an unknown client, and the italic was from the work he did for Underwood which he called 'Aldine'. Toshi added narrower and wider alternates in the same way Dwiggins devised.

Font Family:
· Dossier Hairline
· Dossier Hairline Italic
· Dossier Ultra Thin
· Dossier Ultra Thin Italic
· Dossier Thin
· Dossier Thin Italic
· Dossier Light
· Dossier Light Italic
· Dossier Regular
· Dossier Italic
· Dossier Semibold
· Dossier Semibold Italic
· Dossier Bold
· Dossier Bold Italic
· Dossier Heavy
· Dossier Heavy Italic

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