Platek
FONT
LED aluminium bollard light for Public Areas
FONT Urban Lighting balances form and function through essential lines and vintage references, offering a timeless and understated lighting head. Designed for pole-top installations, this version enhances urban spaces with a discreet and refined luminous presence.
Compact in proportion and clean in design, FONT integrates naturally into a wide range of architectural contexts, delivering controlled and functional illumination through a proprietary optical system available in street, asymmetric, or diffuse beam versions. The precision of the light and the quality of materials make each installation a deliberate design gesture, shaping the environment with clarity and character.
Perfect for squares, pathways, public areas, or green spaces, FONT Urban Lighting becomes a distinctive element that accompanies the city with the same visual consistency and identity as a font chosen to give voice to a text.
Die-cast body and flange manufactured in aluminium alloy EN 44300 with very low copper content. Painted steel pole. Glass diffuser. Subjected to galvanic anodizing treatment divided into distinct phases: mechanical satin finishing, surface degreasing, anodic oxidation and final sealing.
The product is painted following a continuous two step paint process (epoxy-based primer + polyester-based colour finish), which allows to generate a single thick protective coating which then generates aprotective barrier against atmospheric agents and UV rays. Before fixing the diffuser on the Platek products a Pre-treatment using an atmospheric pressure plasma process is carried out on the surface.
The process activates the ionic load on the surface exactly where it is needed, thus promoting the best silicone grip possible and removing any residual release of agents for a longer lasting seal. The next steps are the coating of silicone and the assembly of the diffuser on the lighting fixture, with an automated process to guarantee the perfect sealing of the lamp. IP65, IK08.
FONT is a family of outdoor bollards and poles designed by the architect Marco Acerbis. Essential volumes, vintage lines and timeless elegance are the main features of a versatile product that is extremely adaptable to its context of use, both as a single and repeated element. The optical systems have been fully engineered by Platek and are available in street light, asymmetrical and diffused emission.
"FONT is a lamp designed to give depth and identity to the outdoor elements, both in shape and for the light emitted" says the designer. "In this it is very similar to the ‘font', the style chosen to write a text: a font not only adapts to the language and medium, but also influences its reading, style and content". Available in two versions, a bollard in 0.5 m and 1 m height and urban lighting pole in 2.5 and 3.5 m.
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