Macrosoma Grotesque
Nearly two thousand cuts from one design origin
Macrosoma is an expansive type family designed by Valerio Monopoli and Fred Wiltshire, released in 2024. What began as a single condensed sans serif has grown to nearly two thousand individual cuts spanning compressed to extended widths, hairline to black weights, and sans and slab serif structures. Each style is available in stencil form with soft-edge variants. The family is organised into four subfamilies: Grotesque, Grotesque Stencil, Slab, and Slab Stencil.
Set in Macrosoma Grotesque
Insights
- Exceptionally short ascenders and thin punctuation are cited as distinguishing design signatures that set the family apart from other sans serif contemporaries.
- Stencil versions exist across the full range of styles, reflected in dedicated Grotesque Stencil and Slab Stencil subfamilies.
- The near-two-thousand-cut scope is managed through four named subfamilies: Grotesque, Grotesque Stencil, Slab, and Slab Stencil.
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