Traulha
Bureau Brut · Yoann Minet · 2017
A five-style family by Yoann Minet conceived around the phonetic structures of Occitan, with a system of language-specific ligatures at its core.
About
Designed as a final project at the Estienne School of Design in 2013 and published by Bureau Brut in 2017, Traulha takes its formal logic from Occitan diphthongs and recurring letter pairs such as 'lh' and 'nl', turning them into a set of structural ligatures. The flagship Regulara style introduces a selective inversion of stroke contrast on letters like 'o', 'e' and 's', giving the text a distinctive typographic rhythm without resorting to decorative regionalism. The family spans two serif styles, a sans, and two italics, covering use cases from body text in small editions to press and signage.
Classification
Traulha Regulara is a serif with deliberate contrast inversions on certain letters, rooted in humanist structure; the family also includes a sans (Lineara) and italic variants, but the primary design voice is a structured serif informed by the Occitan linguistic tradition.