The Letters

Gingin Brook

Prospect Creek

Tank Stream

Culgoa River

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards the ocean, sea, lake or another river.

Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, run, burn, beck and rill.

Many names for small rivers are specific to location; examples are “run” in some parts of the United States,

“burn” in Scotland and “beck” in northern England. A river is defined as being larger than a creek.

A river begins at a source (or more often several sources), follows a path called a course, and ends at a mouth or mouths. The water in a river is usually confined to a channel, made up of a stream bed between banks. In larger rivers there is often also a wider floodplain shaped by flood-waters over-topping the channel. Floodplains may be very wide in relation to the size of the river channel. This distinction between river channel and floodplain can be blurred, especially in urban areas where the floodplain of a river channel can become greatly developed by housing and industry. Rivers can flow down mountains, through valleys or along plains, and can create canyons or gorges. The term upriver (or upstream) refers to the direction towards the source of the river, i.e. against the direction of flow. Likewise, the term downriver (or downstream) describes the direction towards the mouth of the river, in which the current flows. The term left bank refers to the left bank in the direction of flow, right bank to the right. The river channel typically contains a single stream of water, but some rivers flow as several interconnecting streams of water, producing a braided river. Extensive braided rivers are now found in only a few remote regions worldwide, such as the South Island of New Zealand. They also occur on peneplains and some of the larger river deltas. Anastamosing rivers are similar to braided rivers and are quite rare. They have multiple sinuous channels carrying large volumes of sediment.

There are rare cases of river bifurcation in which a river divides and the resultant flows ending in different seas. An example is the bifurcation of Nerodime River in Kosovo. A river flowing in its channel is a sourceof energy which acts on the river channel to change its shape and form. In 1757, the German hydrologist Albert Brahms empirically observed that the submerged weight of objects that may be carried away by a river is proportional to the sixth power of the river flow speed. This formulation is also sometimes called Airy's law. Thus, if the speed of flow is doubled, the flow would dislodge objects with 64 times as much submerged weight. In mountainous torrential zones this can be seen as erosion channels through hard rocks and the creation of sands and gravels from the destruction of larger rocks. A river valley that was created from a U-shaped glaciated valley, can often easily be identified by the V-shaped channel that it has carved. In the middle reaches where a river flows over flatter land, meanders may form through erosion of the river banks and deposition on the inside of bends. Sometimes the river will cut off a loop, shortening the channel and forming an oxbow lake or billabong. Rivers that carry large amounts of sediment may develop conspicuous deltas at their mouths. Rivers whose mouths are in saline tidal waters may form estuaries. Throughout the course of the river, the total volume of water transported downstream will often be a combination of the free water flow together with a substantial volume flowing through sub-surface rocks and gravels that underlie the river and its floodplain (called the hyporheic zone). For many rivers in large valleys, this unseen component of flow may greatly exceed the visible flow. Most but not all rivers flow on the surface. Subterranean rivers flow underground in caves or caverns.

Styles

Serous Brook

Serous Creek

Serous Stream

Serous River

OpenType features

Default characters

Contextual Alternates activted

Default figures

Proportional Oldstyle figures activated

Default figures

Small figures activated

Glyphs

Basic character set

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefg\uE000 hijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Accented characters and language options

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Language accents

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Standard figures

0123456789

Oldstyle figures

0123456789

Small figures

0123456789

Symbols and punctuation

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Information

About Serous

First conceived in 2008 during exploration for a radio station identity, Serous is a geometric display typeface consisting of four styles. Serous employs a systemised design that generates form and structure based on a set of modular rules. The characters are drawn on a geometric grid, giving the type a rhythmic uniform nature. The forms in Serous contain no right angles and feature the same curve radius and stroke weight throughout each type style.

Characters automatically interlock and combine to form graphic relationships that flow like gridded liquid. The four weights can be combined to create inline and outline styles and characters can be overlapped to form gridded visual interplay.

As the naming indicates, Serous has been designed to embody the feeling of liquid. Letters and text are defined by rhythm and fluidity. The word serous comes from the Latin serõsus (from serum) and is defined as: resembling, or producing serum, referring to substances of a watery nature.

Release

2015

Design

Mark Gowing

Mastering

Ben Kiel

Features

Four Styles
Contextual alternates
Oldstyle Figures
Small figures
Lining Figures

Language support

Abenaki, Afaan, Oromo, Afar, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, Genoese, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, NdebeleNeapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Inari Sami), Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Northern Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni

Usage notes

We are committed to the highest levels of font production. Serous has been professionally engineered to work seamlessly across all platforms and to perform exceptionally in print and on screen. The OpenType fonts contain a multitude of convenient features, such as automated case-sensitive punctuation and symbols, alternate figure sets and broad Latin-based language support to enhance your requirements.

Serous is most effective at display sizes. Letters become images and patterns defined by rhythm and fluidity. The characters in Serous will automatically interlock horizontally, and can be interlocked vertically with the right leading adjustment.

The Serous family features four font weights that allow for pin lines between letters at a variety of sizes. The font styles can be overlaid at the same size, creating outline effects. Letters can be layered at related sizes to take advantage of their modular nature. River is the heaviest and a useful weight at very large sizes as the pin line between forms is extremely thin. Brook is the lightest and will be most useful at small sizes as the pin line is thickest.

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