LL Akkurat
Lineto · Laurenz Brunner · 2004
A Swiss neo-modernist grotesque by Laurenz Brunner, first released in 2004, that helped revive interest in neutral, precision-driven sans-serifs in contemporary type design.
About
Drawn while Brunner was studying at Central Saint Martins and published by Lineto in April 2004, LL Akkurat has since expanded from three weights to five, with a companion monospaced family and italics. The typeface's reach was extended substantially in 2019 with six new scripts: Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Devanagari and Vietnamese, each developed by specialist designers under Brunner's direction. Its static construction and deliberate refusal of trend or elegance have made it a durable workhorse for identity and editorial work.
Classification
A Swiss neo-modernist grotesque with static construction, positioned in the lineage of neutral European sans-serifs. Lineto themselves describe it as embodying technical precision and neutrality in the tradition of Swiss graphic values.