Industry: Design

Telesans

Designed for the Daily Telegraph's 2015 redesign

Telesans is a humanist sans-serif type family designed by Paul Barnes with assistance from Dan Milne for the Daily Telegraph, debuting in the newspaper's 2015 redesign. Described as open and warm, it was noted for its performance across dense, small-scale utility typography—weather, financial listings, sports scores, and television schedules. The family comprises Head, Text, and Agate subfamilies.

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The brief centred on small-size legibility across high-density data contexts such as financial listings and sports scores.
The family is divided into three purpose-specific subfamilies—Head, Text, and Agate—indicating a systematic approach to newspaper typographic hierarchy.
Telesans is available through Commercial Type's Vault, a catalogue that houses typefaces many of which originated as custom commissions.