Workhorse Geometric
Workhorse Type Foundry · Adrian Kimball · 2021
A geometric sans-serif spanning eight weights and three optical sizes, drawing on Futura and early geometric precedents such as Kabel and Erbar-Grotesk.
About
Built across 48 styles with a variable font file included, the family covers Hairline through Black with matching obliques at Regular, Text and Micro optical sizes. Eleven stylistic sets offer alternate characters including flat-sided and minimal G variants, a two-storey lowercase a, and a modernist ampersand. The foundry designed matching Inline, Stencil and Dot display companions to allow consistent transitions across type treatments.
Classification
A classic geometric sans-serif drawing on Futura and early 20th-century geometric precedents such as Kabel and Erbar-Grotesk. The design is built around optically corrected geometry across three optical sizes, placing it firmly in the geometric sans tradition.