Typeface Design for Fontwerk
Seven years from first sketch to Version 2.0
McQueen is a type family designed by Loris Olivier, Noheul Lee, and Katja Schimmel, with font engineering by Olli Meier, developed between 2016 and 2023. The collection launched in 2020 and reached Version 2.0 in December 2023, expanding to 36 styles across two subfamilies with variable font support on weight and optical size axes. The 2023 update merged the former Grotesk and Display subfamilies into a single variable font controlled by an Optical Size axis, added 16 styles, and corrected spacing, kerning, and outlines.
Set in McQueen Collection
Insights
- Version 2.0 consolidated the separate Grotesk and Display variable fonts into a single file governed by an Optical Size axis.
- Olli Meier, formerly a Senior Software Engineer at Monotype with credits on Helvetica Now and Neue Frutiger World, revised and expanded McQueen from the ground up for the 2023 release.
- All three core designers—Olivier, Lee, and Schimmel—hold TypeMedia Masters from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
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