Sole Sans
CAST · Riccardo Olocco, Luciano Perondi · 2018
A large newspaper sans commissioned for Il Sole 24 Ore, built across five widths and nine weights with early 19th-century grotesque details at arch-to-stem junctions.
About
Designed by Riccardo Olocco and Luciano Perondi for the Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore, where it has been in use since June 2018 alongside the companion Sole Serif. The family spans five widths from ExtraCondensed to Extended, each running across nine weights from Thin to Black with matching italics, making it suited to everything from dense headline setting to small diagrams and tabular data. Contrast at the junctions between arches and stems, drawn from early 19th-century sanserif models, gives the design a raw, slightly brutal texture that distinguishes it from more neutral contemporary grotesques.
Classification
Inspired by early 19th-century sanserifs, Sole Sans draws on the grotesque tradition with contrast at arch-to-stem junctions that gives it a primitive, proto-grotesque character distinct from neutral modernist sans designs.