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Sixteen years in development
Effra is a contemporary humanist sans-serif typeface developed by Dalton Maag between 2008 and 2024, with roots tracing to the early sans letterforms of Caslon Junior. The family spans Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin writing systems, covering over 920 languages. It is available as a variable font with Weight and Italic axes, and has received a Red Dot Design Award.
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- The design lineage draws explicitly from Caslon Junior's early sans letterforms, grounding a contemporary typeface in nineteenth-century precedent.
- The variable font implements both Weight and Italic as continuous axes.
- Seven designers contributed across the 2008–2024 development span, reflecting an extended, multi-contributor production process.
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