Antic
Manic Type · Jamie Chang · 2024
A 54-style grotesque superfamily by Jamie Chang drawing on Antique Olive, FF Balance and Duplicate Sans, spanning six widths and nine weights with a subtle top-heavy humanist feel.
About
Built from the bones of Manic Type's Picholine Antique, Antic takes the sleek, slightly eccentric proportions of Antique Olive and reframes them within a contemporary grotesque structure. The family runs across six width variants from Compressed to Expanded, each in nine weights from Thin to Black, totalling 54 styles. OpenType features include oldstyle figures, case-sensitive forms, fractions, square dots and multiple alternate character sets including humanist single-story forms.
Classification
A grotesque sans with top-heavy humanist proportions in the tradition of Antique Olive and FF Balance, combining classic grotesque structure with subtle humanist stroke contrast.