Eugenio Sans Collection
Newsprint technical constraints as a design driver
Greg Gazdowicz designed Eugenio Sans to complement Eugenio Serif within Francesco Franchi's redesign of La Repubblica. It operates across a wide size range—drop caps to captions, sidebars, and infographics—and is the primary headline face for Sport and other feature sections. Its geometric approach was partly inspired by the Bodoni–Futura pairing associated with Massimo Vignelli.
Set in Eugenio Sans, Eugenio Serif, Eugenio Text
Insights
- Flat vertical terminals create open apertures and clean letter spacing, giving the face a direct, newsy tone.
- Role separation—Eugenio Sans for Sport and features, Eugenio Serif for news—structures the typographic hierarchy across sections.
- Designing against an existing serif counterpart helped differentiate the sans within a crowded geometric genre.
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