Typeface Design for Schwiss
A grotesk built from two canonical references
Schwiss is a 14-font grotesque family by A2-TYPE, drawing on the formal conventions of Akzidenz-Grotesk and Helvetica. It retains characteristic details of those references—closed apertures on C, G, and S, a large x-height, square punctuation, and monolinear strokes—reinterpreted as a utilitarian typeface.
Set in Schwiss
Insights
- Closed C, G, and S apertures are explicitly retained as a defining structural choice.
- Square punctuation marks a deliberate departure from the rounded details common in many neo-grotesques.
- The family comprises 14 fonts; no further detail on weights or widths is available in the source.
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