Profile Pro
Supertype · Martin Wenzel
A Berlin-designed humanist sans by Martin Wenzel that traces its roots to Dutch typographic tradition and Renaissance letterforms, built for sustained reading across seven weights.
About
Designed by Berlin-based Martin Wenzel and shaped by his studies at the Royal Academy in The Hague, Profile Pro sits comfortably alongside Thesis and Proforma in the humanist sans lineage. Its open apertures, two-storey 'g', asymmetric stroke terminals and gently oblique italic give it warmth without informality, making it well suited to text-heavy editorial and corporate publishing work. The Pro version spans seven weights from Thin to Black, each with a matching italic, and covers 180 languages across 1,545 glyphs with a full complement of numeral sets and small caps.
Classification
Martin Wenzel designed Profile Pro explicitly within the humanist sans tradition, drawing on Renaissance letterform construction and Dutch typographic influence, with true italics, open apertures, a two-storey 'g', and residual stroke-end details that recall the broad-nib pen.