Typeface for Lineto’s Font Library

Five years from sketch to release

Designed by Laurenz Brunner and first released by Lineto in 2013, LL Circular is a geometric sans-serif in eight weights. Its design began in 2008 and shifted over five years from a purely geometric approach toward a more nuanced formal conception. The family has since expanded to support Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Devanagari scripts, with five of those extensions developed in collaboration with named specialist type designers.

Set in LL Circular

Insights

Design development ran from 2008 to the 2013 release, during which the approach evolved from strict geometry toward greater formal complexity.
Five non-Latin script extensions were each handled by named specialists: Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky (Cyrillic), Panos Haratzopoulos (Greek), Titus Nemeth (Arabic), Yanek Yontef (Hebrew), and Erin McLaughlin (Devanagari).
Font engineering and mastering was carried out by Alphabet, Berlin.