Industry: Design

Guardian Egyptian Collection

Built for every corner of a daily newspaper

Designed by Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz with Panagiotis Haratzopoulos and Ilya Ruderman for the Guardian newspaper and Mark Porter. The collection comprises several interrelated subfamilies covering the full typographic range of a daily newspaper.

Set in Guardian Egyptian, Guardian Text Egyptian, Guardian Sans, Guardian Agate Sans

Insights

The sans subfamily originated conceptually from stripping serifs off the Egyptian, linking the two formally.
Four widths of the headline sans allow flexible layout across newspaper pages.
An Agate Sans addresses the demanding small-size requirements of financial listings.