Typeface Design for a Humanist Sans Family
Excoffon's spirit redrawn for variable type
Fraise is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Pablo Bosch at Dalton Maag in 2024, inspired by the work of Roger Excoffon. It has a tall x-height and distinctive rounded shapes. An extensive Weight axis spans body-text through display applications, and the Latin character set supports over 790 languages.
Set in Fraise
Insights
- Design is explicitly inspired by Roger Excoffon, grounding the rounded shapes in a specific humanist reference.
- The Weight axis is described as extensive, positioning the family as a single-variable solution across a wide typographic range.
- OpenType features include alternate forms for a, u, and y, a double-storey g alternate, case-sensitive forms, fractions, ordinals, proportional and tabular numerals, superscript, subscript, and all-caps support.
- Received a Communication Arts Award of Excellence.
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