Play Extra
A single-weight display typeface drawn from 1952 French wood type specimens by Jacoby Fils of Grenoble, available in static and variable formats.
About
Rooted in mid-century French wood poster type from the Jacoby Fils foundry in Grenoble, Play Extra arrives as a single bold style with a variable font counterpart. The source material dates to 1952, lending the design a raw, physical weight typical of large-scale wooden letterforms. One style, one purpose: large-scale setting where the blunt energy of wood type is the point.
Classification
The source material reference to 1952 wooden poster characters (caractères en bois pour l'affiche) from Jacoby Fils in Grenoble places this firmly in the wood type display tradition, with a single bold style and variable font indicating a poster-oriented display typeface.