Manual Pozor

The typeface from warning sings, as it was drawn on paper.

Manual Pozor (Slovak for “warning”) is a digitization of the typeface from old Slovak warning signs. It is an oblique version of Manual Grotesk B, with slightly larger radius of its arcs.

The upright and oblique styles of Manual Grotesk were never used together on a single sign – the upright Manual Grotesk was used to mark streets and buildings and the oblique variant was used exclusively on warning signs.

Because of the size of the letters on these signs – usually they had longer texts – small details and sharp corners were rounded off in the enamel production process. However, Manual Pozor preserves these details and presents them just like they were drawn on stencils by the original sign designers.