Saltburn
WiseType · Jacob Wise · 2021
A variable humanist sans by Jacob Wise, drawn from the British railway typographic tradition of Johnston and Gill Sans and calibrated against the house styles of British Rail, Dutch NS and Swiss Federal Railways.
About
Nine weights from Thin to Heavy, each with italics, and a variable version covering both weight and italic axes, give the family considerable range for signage and wayfinding systems. Humanist details — open counters, sharp terminals, a double-storey 'g' and a chiselled 't' — sit within grotesque proportions, with stylistic alternates for those who prefer plainer forms. An extensive glyph set adds figures in multiple styles, fractions, fleurons, transport pictograms and mathematical symbols, making it unusually well equipped for the environments it targets.
Classification
Saltburn draws explicitly on the British humanist sans tradition via Johnston's Underground Alphabet and Gill Sans, combining open counters and sharp terminals with grotesque proportions — placing it firmly in the humanist sans subcategory.