Formale Grotesque
A Swiss grotesque in three weights and four optical grades, balancing technical construction with humanistic details drawn from early rationalist type design.
About
Three weights, Light, Normal and Bold, each available across four grades with matching italics, giving twelve styles in total plus an OpenType alternate set. Characteristic details include wide open round letters, angled cuts on f, r and t, and conspicuously equal widths on B, P and R. The design sits at the intersection of technical rigour and humanistic warmth, most evident in the contrast between the constructed a and g and the more open b and e.
Classification
A Swiss grotesque with humanistic tendencies, sitting in the tradition of early 20th-century rationalist type design. The page explicitly positions it within the grotesque idea and the radical rationalisation movement of the 1890s.