Gando
An 1828 Paris type specimen as the foundation for a 2025 variable family
Gando is a Didot-rooted type family designed by Matthieu Cortat in 2025 for 205tf, built as variable fonts spanning four optical sizes—Caption, Text, Display, and Poster. The historical starting point is an 1828 Paris specimen from the Gando brothers' foundry, studied for its small-size adaptations and modernist alternate letterforms. The family includes italics, a Regular-to-Bold weight range, five numeral series, and a suite of arrows, currency symbols, and roman numerals.
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Insights
- The 1828 Gando foundry specimen contained alternative designs for a, g, and j with a markedly modernist character; the typeface draws on this corpus while freely exploring the original forms.
- Caption optical size uses a reinforced x-height and spacing optimized for small-size setting; Poster prioritises the expressiveness of the curves.
- Two of the five numeral series are proportional but differ in cap-height alignment—one for display-scale titles, one reduced to sit unobtrusively in lowercase running text.
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