LL supermax
Lineto · Cornel Windlin, Gilles Gavillet, Pablo Desportes · 1998
A geometric display type system rooted in Max Bill's lozenge-derived letterforms, expanded from a handful of letters into three complete unicase variants.
About
Originally completed in 1998 by Cornel Windlin and Gilles Gavillet as a homage to Max Bill's graphic work, the typeface draws on two distinct sets of letters Bill created in 1931 and 1932 for Zurich modernist projects. Pablo Desportes returned to the source in 2024, separating Bill's vertical and horizontal approaches into two unicase alphabets, Tall and Wide, then interpolating a third Square variant between them. Stylistic sets allow variation in lettershape consistency, ranging from tightly unified geometric construction to forms recalling the 1998 original.
Classification
Derived from Max Bill's rounded lozenge letterforms, the typeface is built on a purely geometric, modular logic with no historical serif precedent, placing it firmly in the display category as a geometric display face.