Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Foco

Brush-inspired humanist sans built for branding and text alike

Foco is a humanist sans-serif family designed by Fabio Haag at Dalton Maag, developed between 2007 and 2023. Brush-inspired details give it a distinctive character suited to branding while maintaining legibility at text sizes. The family covers Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, supporting over 900 languages.

Set in Foco

Insights

Brush-influenced stroke details are intentionally retained to aid recognizability at large sizes without sacrificing text-size accessibility.
The family covers three writing systems — Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek — supporting over 900 languages.
OpenType features include case-sensitive forms, fractions, ordinals, proportional numerals, subscript, superscript, and an alternate @ glyph.
Development spanned 2007 to 2023.