Eksell Display
Letters from Sweden · Olle Eksell, Göran Söderström, Krista Radoeva, George Triantafyllakos · 2015
A digitisation of Olle Eksell's 1962 hand-drawn lettering, released as a four-style display family covering Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.
About
Originally sketched in 1962 in a five-square-metre Stockholm studio by the Swedish graphic designer Olle Eksell, the typeface was carefully digitised by Letters from Sweden and released in 2015. The family comprises four optical styles including a stencil cut, and the character set spans Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek. Its irregular, graphic-designer-drawn quality is a feature rather than a flaw, giving it a mid-century warmth that distinguishes it from more polished revivals.
Classification
A quirky, hand-drawn display typeface with geometric tendencies but irregular, graphic-designer sensibility. Classified as display due to its optical size variants and distinctly decorative character unsuited to text use.