Auguste Sans
Weekend Type · Hamish Makgill and Luke Charsley · 2021
A four-weight humanist sans derived from the degraded stencil lettering found on an antique Fauchon vinegar bottle, designed by Hamish Makgill and Luke Charsley.
About
Auguste Sans traces its origins to the weathered lettering on an old ceramic bottle, where surface degradation had given the stencilled letterforms an unusual character blending serif and sans-serif qualities. Makgill and Charsley used this artifact as a springboard rather than a strict template, producing a family of four weights — Light, Regular, Medium and Bold — that works across body text and display settings. It is one half of a paired release alongside Auguste Serif, with both families sharing enough structural DNA to function together in the same layout.
Classification
Auguste Sans exhibits a humanist character rooted in the idiosyncratic lettering of a degraded stencil on an antique ceramic bottle, giving it organic warmth that places it in the humanist sans tradition rather than geometric or grotesque camps.