Typeface for Lineto Library

From 2004 diploma project to published typeface: a 17-year arc

Grey Mono is a sans serif in the French grotesque tradition, designed by Aurèle Sack and released by Lineto in 2021. The design originated as AS Gold, Sack's diploma project at ECAL in 2004, and was subsequently refined into a playful, screen-friendly text typeface with contemporary proportions. Cyrillic was developed with Viktoriya Grabowska and Greek with Panos Haratzopoulos; font engineering and mastering were handled by Alphabet, Berlin.

Set in Grey Mono

Insights

The design traces to a 2004 ECAL diploma project originally named AS Gold, giving the released typeface a documented academic origin.
Sack applied the same historically-informed approach used in LL Purple and LL Brown, drawing formal cues from 19th-century grotesques while imposing precise contemporary rendering.
Cyrillic and Greek scripts were produced in collaboration with named specialists, reflecting a division of expertise across scripts.