LFFP custom

Cut-outs that move like the game

Blaze Type designed a custom typeface for the Ligue Féminine de Football Professionnel (LFFP), launched 1 July 2024 as French professional women's football's new league, operating under the FFF. Using Rules as a neo-grotesque foundation, the custom family applies glyph cut-outs evoking brushstrokes and ornamental stencils to suggest movement. Four weights totalling 1,652 glyphs — covering extended Latin, numerals, fractions, and punctuation — were delivered in approximately three months.

Insights

An agency prototype of four capitals (H, O, A, B) was corrected by Blaze to unify crosspieces, reduce sharp points, and ease curves — changes critical for small-size legibility and future weight expansion.
Lowercase cut-outs required more nuanced treatment than capitals: all letters except 'o' have opened counterforms, lending a quasi-stencil character without sacrificing consistency.
Numerals and fractions received dedicated design attention to support sports-specific documents such as championship standings.
Extreme weights (Light and Black) were drawn first; Regular and Bold were then generated through interpolation.