Industry: Design

Portrait Collection

500-year-old forms, aggressively simplified

Berton Hasebe's sharply minimalist take on French Renaissance types, pairing classical proportions with triangular Latin serifs. The collection spans four families covering a wide tonal range, from a sober display face to Portrait Text, Condensed, and Inline. Ilya Ruderman also contributed.

Set in Portrait

Insights

The collection comprises four families: a display face, Portrait Text, Condensed, and Inline.
Among Commercial Type's several interpretations of Granjon- and Garamont-era forms, Portrait is described as the most formally new and aggressive in its simplicity.