Custom Typeface for Morningstar Financial Data Systems

Drop-in replacement: a custom typeface that changed everything while breaking nothing

Lineto designed a bespoke condensed typeface family for Morningstar, a global financial services company seeking to exit an existing type licensing contract. The brief required matching the metrics and appearance of the predecessor font precisely enough that no existing templates, graphs, or data visualisation systems needed modification. Legibility improvements—including a refined rhythm, extended x-height, and micro-edits of tight joints—were layered in without disrupting the established visual ecosystem.

Set in Morningstar Intrinsic