Plain
Optimo · François Rappo · 2014
François Rappo's modernist grotesque in a very wide weight range, with Arabic and Pan companions for international systems.
About
A modernist grotesque by François Rappo that follows the lineage of his Theinhardt revival. Plain is incredibly fluid; text composes effortlessly balanced lines and works from footnote to poster sizes. The drawing is neither strictly geometric nor tied to 19th-century grotesque quirks, which leaves the typeface universal but recognisable. The family stretches across an unusually large weight range with italics, plus a Skeleton cut, an Arabic companion in matched weights and a Pan version for cross-script identity work.
Classification
Optimo describes Plain as Rappo's investigation of the rational simplicity of modernism, neither constrained by a strictly geometric approach nor by 19th-century grotesque idiosyncrasies, with a footnote-to-poster size range.