Muoto
Warm modernism across 48 variable styles
Muoto is a variable sans-serif family designed by Matthieu Cortat in collaboration with Base Design (Anthony Franklin and Sander Vermeulen), published in 2021 as a successor to Basetica. It spans Thin to Black weights across four set widths—Ultra Condensed, Condensed, Roman, and Extended—all fully variable. The family was extended in 2022 to broaden its expressive range.
Set in Muoto
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- Extended and Condensed widths resize letterforms to 20% of standard proportions.
- Ultra Condensed assigns a fixed set width to counterforms across all weights, driven by typographic logic rather than mathematical proportion.
- Muoto succeeded Basetica, itself commissioned from Cortat after GVA Studio joined the Base group in 2009, when Base Geneva satirically riffed on Swiss typographic conventions.
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