Neue Tarasque
Swiss grid meets French humanist warmth
Neue Tarasque is a type family by Matthieu Salvaggio and Léon Hugues, released in 2023 under Blaze Type. It draws on Swiss International Style geometry and the humanist warmth associated with French designer Roger Excoffon. The family spans Light to Bold with italics, supports Latin European languages, and ships as TTF, WOFF, WOFF2, and variable files with OpenType features including ligatures, alternates, and stylistic sets.
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Insights
- Roger Excoffon is cited as a direct inspiration, anchoring humanist calligraphic qualities within an otherwise geometrically disciplined structure.
- The family exports as a variable file alongside static TTF and web formats.
- OpenType features—ligatures, alternates, and stylistic sets—are built in to extend typographic expression beyond the base character set.
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