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Blaze Type · Fred Wiltshire · 2023
A sans serif drawn from the inky, varied styles of late 19th-century French newspaper type, released by Fred Wiltshire in 2023 with 30 styles and a variable file.
About
The design takes cues from the broad range of sans serifs found in French newspaper printing of the 1880s and 1890s, carrying their soft joints and ink-trap character into a contemporary 30-style family spanning five weights with matching italics and width variants. Coverage extends to Extended Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, with stylistic sets and illustrative glyphs included alongside the core character set. The family is built to move between small text and large display use without switching families.
Classification
Described as drawing from French newspaper sans serifs of the late 19th century, with soft curves and ink-influenced features; sits in humanist sans territory given its warmth and organic quality rather than strict geometric or grotesque construction.