Typeface for the Lineto Library

Built for a book, adopted by an airport

LL Simple is a monospace typeface family designed by NORM (Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs) and released by Lineto in 2000, with font engineering and mastering by Alphabet, Berlin. Originally developed for NORM's dense 2002 publication *NORM: The Things*, it was released publicly beforehand. The family offers three weights, six cuts, and four titling versions, and was designed for text use at small sizes. After 2001 it was extended into a proportional version serving as the exclusive corporate typeface of Köln/Bonn Airport.

Set in LL Simple

Insights

The typeface was designed as a text font intended to perform at small point sizes, informing its monospace structure.
A proportional derivative was developed post-2001 as an exclusive corporate font for Köln/Bonn Airport — an unusual trajectory from editorial to institutional use.
An ongoing redraw with collaborator Giliane Cachin aims to produce a fully functional proportional text font, marking a third phase of the project.