"Platform is the first typeface released by Berton Hasebe. This family is an exploration of how the geometric sans serif, one of the most well-trod genres of twentieth century type design, might be approached in a contemporary context. Rather than aiming for perfection, Platform instead plays with the inherent crudeness in letters that have been reduced to their simplest essence. Platform drew inspiration from a wide variety of geometric sans serifs from around the world, from the quirky Latin alphabets designed to match Japanese typefaces, which informed the large x-height, to the strangely-proportioned early Modernist German and Dutch sans serifs, which informed the interplay between wide and narrow forms in the uppercase, yielding a unique texture in lines of caps."