Interstate Mono
Frere-Jones · Tobias Frere-Jones, Christian Schwartz
Christian Schwartz's monospaced reworking of Interstate, commissioned by a bank and preserving the original family's distinctive quirks in fixed-width form.
About
Originally commissioned for a bank requiring monospaced settings, this four-weight family adapts the central weights of Frere-Jones's Interstate grotesque into a fixed-pitch format. Schwartz retained Interstate's characteristic eccentricities drawn from US highway signage while introducing new ones appropriate to the monospaced context. The result sits naturally in technical, data-heavy and editorial applications where the warmth of a humanist grotesque is needed alongside strict column alignment.
Classification
A monospaced adaptation of the Interstate grotesque family, preserving its highway-signage character while enforcing fixed-width metrics throughout all four weights.