Typeface Design for Bebas Neue
From personal project to open-source family across 13 years
Bebas Neue originated in 2005 as a personal project by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, released publicly as Bebas before being refined into Bebas Neue in 2010—an all-caps display typeface drawing on 1920s geometric sans-serif models such as Futura. In 2014, Fontfabric expanded it into a five-weight family. The family became open-source under the SIL OFL in 2018.
Set in Bebas Neue
Insights
- The original Bebas was a solo release by Tsunekawa; it evolved into Bebas Neue in 2010 before Fontfabric took on family expansion in 2014.
- Fontfabric's 2014 expansion brought the family to five weights—Thin, Light, Book, Regular, and Bold—enabling weight contrast within the all-caps system.
- The family includes OpenType features such as fractions, ordinals, and localization, plus extended Latin support covering over 80 languages.
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