Industry: Design

Relais

A didone built for screens, not just print

Relais Display is a didone typeface designed by Alexander Rütten and Olivia Wood, released in 2023. Its proportions draw from magazine lettering of the late 1970s–80s without functioning as a revival. The family spans 7 weights and 3 widths with italics, and is also available as a variable font with Weight, Width, and Italic axes.

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Insights

Ink traps and optical corrections target legibility at smaller sizes—notable for a display-class didone.
Generous spacing, wider than typical for the genre, extends usability into medium-sized typesetting beyond conventional display headlines.
Italic cuts accumulate decorative detail in heavier weights, giving the family tonal range across the weight axis.
The family is offered in both static (7 weights, 3 widths) and variable formats, with Weight, Width, and Italic as the variable axes.