LL Brown
Lineto · Aurèle Sack · 2011
A geometric sans by Aurèle Sack fusing Johnston Sans and Super Grotesk, grown into a large superfamily with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew coverage.
About
Conceived at the suggestion of Zurich designers Lex Trüb and Urs Lehni in 2007, LL Brown draws on two historically loaded geometric sans serifs: Johnston Sans, the typeface of London's public transport, and Super Grotesk, which became ubiquitous in East Germany. Aurèle Sack refined and extended the family over more than a decade, adding Narrow and Condensed companions in 2022, a Mono subfamily, and decorative Graphic styles. Non-Latin scripts were developed in collaboration with specialists in Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, making it one of the more thorough multi-script geometric sans families available.
Classification
LL Brown is a geometric sans rooted in Johnston Sans and Super Grotesk, two early 20th-century geometric designs; its clean geometry, open apertures and systematic construction place it firmly in the geometric sans tradition.