LL Home
Lineto · Clemens Piontek · 2017
A geometric sans with a century of technological distortion baked into its letterforms, tracing a lineage from Futura through Linotype's Spartan Classified to a fully functional contemporary family.
About
Clemens Piontek spent several years maturing the shapes of LL Home, working from Linotype's 1951 Spartan Classified, a hot-metal newspaper font whose letters were individually compressed, shortened and altered purely for legibility at 5.5 pt. Those functional distortions, carried forward through phototypesetting and a hasty PostScript conversion, became the typeface's character. The family now runs to four weights with italics, a variable axis and two rounded subfamilies, and performs unusually well across both body text and display settings.
Classification
Descended from Futura via Linotype's Spartan and Spartan Classified, LL Home carries the geometric sans lineage but with idiosyncratic, historically accumulated letterform quirks that distinguish it from conventional geometric revival work.