Graphik Hebrew Family
Bringing the grotesk genre to a script that never had one
Graphik Hebrew extends Christian Schwartz's 2009 Graphik — a reinterpretation of lesser-known mid-century types that straddles geometric-sans bowls and European grotesk proportions — into Hebrew. Because Hebrew has no native equivalent to the grotesk genre, designers Daniel Grumer and Yanek Iontef applied Graphik's stripped-down constructional approach to Hebrew letterforms. Sharp corners from Latin characters such as Z and 2 were brought in to provide texture.
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- Graphik was conceived as a reinterpretation of obscure mid-century types, deliberately sidestepping the cultural familiarity of Univers, Helvetica, and Futura.
- The Hebrew extension imports specific Latin and numeral details — sharp corners on Z and 2 — as a texture strategy.
- Graphik balances round geometric-sans bowls with European grotesk structures and proportions.
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