Garaje
Bauhaus theory meets garage-owner pragmatism
Garaje draws from two sources: Bauhaus geometric idealism and the vernacular inscriptions of Spanish garage owners—both tending toward elementary forms, one ideologically, one through practical necessity. Thomas Huot-Marchand built the family on a scalable modular grid with no optical corrections, treating the resulting perceptual distortions as intrinsic to the design. Developed over 20 years, the system spans 44 widths, 5 weights, and 445 fonts, all derived from the same modules.
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Insights
- The design refuses optical correction, treating the resulting perceptual distortions as a feature rather than a flaw.
- All widths and weights—from extremely narrow to outlandishly large—share a single modular system.
- The family received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club (TDC67) in 2021.
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