Eiffel
b•v-h type · André Baldinger, Fanny Hamelin · 2009
A geometric sans drawn from the structural logic of the Eiffel Tower, designed by André Baldinger for a Paris signage commission and released commercially in 2022.
About
Originally conceived as a typeface for Eiffel Tower wayfinding — with both a large display variant and a text variant — the design is governed by the square, the double square and six fixed strut angles drawn directly from the tower's ironwork. The Level subfamily extends the family with stroke-weight variants, including the extreme Level Air, which achieves a stroke thickness of just one unit. Across 14 styles and 642 glyphs per roman and italic, the family covers an exceptionally wide range of Latin-script languages.
Classification
Eiffel is built from a strict geometric vocabulary derived from the structural language of the Eiffel Tower: the square, the double square and six defined strut angles. This rigorous constructive logic places it firmly within geometric sans, with display and text variants extending its range.