Typeface Revival for Letter Gothic
A 1950s IBM typewriter face reborn as a variable font
Dalton Maag's revival of Letter Gothic, the humanist sans monospace originally designed by Roger Roberson for IBM in the 1950s. Rebuilt as a variable font with a Weight axis spanning Hairline to Black and a Slant axis. Coverage extends across Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew scripts, supporting over 820 languages.
Set in Letter Gothic Recast
Insights
- The revival introduces variable font axes—Weight and Slant—absent from the original Roger Roberson design.
- Four designers contributed: Samir Reis, Emanuela Conidi, Bruno Mello, and Natalia Qadreh.
- The family covers Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew in addition to Latin, supporting over 820 languages.
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