WEA Sans Condensed
A2-Type · 2021
The condensed sans-serif component of a bespoke type system commissioned for Weekendavisen, the Danish weekly broadsheet, part of a redesign that won World's Best Designed Newspaper at SND in 2021.
About
Nine weights from Thin to Black make this a versatile condensed grotesque built for dense editorial layouts across print and screen. It sits within a larger type system encompassing Hairline, Display, Text and Sans variants, all rooted in the paper's lineage back to Berlingske Tidende (1749). The full system received the Tokyo TDC Award in 2021, and the newspaper redesign it anchors was named World's Best Designed Newspaper twice over.
Classification
A condensed sans-serif designed as part of a newspaper type system, sitting in the grotesque tradition with a practical, editorial sensibility suited to tight column widths in print and on screen.