Typeface Design for a Geometric Display Font

Not a Futura revival—a reimagining of Futura's founding geometry for digital type

LL Supreme is a geometric sans-serif family designed by Arve Båtevik and Lineto, released in 2020 with font engineering and mastering by Alphabet, Berlin. Rather than reviving Futura, it revisits Paul Renner's founding premise—that a sophisticated typeface could be built from pure geometry—and re-examines how that idea translates through contemporary digital tools. The family extends beyond conventional weight ranges with the ultra-heavy Jumbo and Choupette cuts, while Choupette VIP pushes in the opposite direction: a hairline variable font with stroke widths spanning 1 to 20 units, using variable font technology to address rendering failures caused by single-unit strokes.

Set in LL Supreme, LL Supreme Jumbo, LL Supreme Choupette, Choupette VIP

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Choupette VIP uses variable font technology specifically to solve rendering failures caused by single-unit stroke widths, making it Lineto's first variable font release.
The VIP suffix denotes Lineto's naming convention for all fonts employing variable font technology.
The source notes that extra-black Futura cuts existed in 1940s American clones but were absent from master releases by Bauersche Giesserei and Neufville Digital; this is offered as historical context, not a stated design influence on Jumbo or Choupette.
Alphabet, Berlin handled font engineering and mastering; the collaboration surfaced numerous application-side inconsistencies in how variable formats are currently handled across software.