Typeface Design for Cassette

A typeface built from the offcuts of other typefaces

Cassette is a neutral geometric grotesk by Martin Vácha for Displaay, assembled from letterform sketches and unused ideas accumulated across earlier projects—some predating typefaces such as Haffer, Roobert, and Saans. Over time these fragments coalesced into a standalone family. The design employs wide proportions with near-exact circles for round letters, a monolinear stroke, and pure geometric construction, intended for both display and text use.

Set in Cassette

Insights

Some letterforms in Cassette predate the earlier Displaay families they were originally sketched for, making it an archaeological record of the studio's design process.
Circular letters use near-exact circles, a geometric constraint that contributes to the wide overall proportions.
Monolinear strokes combined with tight typesetting create optical tension between shapes in headlines.
Described as Vácha's final sans-serif in the neutral grotesk category, positioning Cassette as a deliberate endpoint rather than an iterative release.