Gardenia
W Type Foundry · Salvador Rodríguez · 2015
A nine-weight grotesque sans by Salvador Rodríguez, spanning Thin to Ultrablack with matching italics for both text and display use.
About
Designed by Salvador Rodríguez between 2015 and 2016, this grotesque sans runs across 18 styles covering nine weights from Thin to Ultrablack, each with a matching italic. The mid-range weights are tuned for legibility in body text, while the extreme cuts at Black and Thin read as strong display faces. A broad OpenType feature set rounds out a family aimed at graphic design, editorial and screen applications.
Classification
Described explicitly as a grotesk sans-serif by the foundry, with characteristics typical of the grotesque tradition: strong legibility at text sizes and expressive extremes at display weights.