Duplicate Collection
Commercial Type · Christian Schwartz, Miguel Reyes
A multi-genre sans system by Schwartz and Reyes that started as a deliberate misremembering of Antique Olive, grown into Sans, Slab, Ionic, Soft and Round companions.
About
A sans serif system by Christian Schwartz and Miguel Reyes, started in 2007 as Schwartz's experiment in playing Roger Excoffon's Antique Olive from memory, the way musicians stumble on their sound by getting it wrong. The result was a sans with its own personality, grown over time into five related families: Sans, Slab, Ionic, Soft and Round, with a Sans Condensed cut for tighter measures. Suits editorial systems and identity work that wants a single voice flexed across multiple structural moods, from humanist sans to slab and softened script-adjacent forms.
Classification
Commercial Type describe Duplicate as a sans serif system started in 2007 by Christian Schwartz as a deliberate misremembering of Roger Excoffon's Antique Olive, grown in collaboration with Miguel Reyes into five related families: Sans, Slab, Ionic, Soft and Round, plus a Sans Condensed cut.