Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Grafier

Straight serifs, zero curves, ruthless precision

Grafier is a 10-style serif family designed by Alex Slobzheninov, taking 18th-century Baskerville as a structural departure point. Its defining trait is fully straight serifs with clean interior joins, complemented by flag-terminals, chopped shapes, and squarish punctuation. The family spans five weights (Regular to Black) in two contrast variants—standard and Display—and ships as a single variable font across two axes.

Set in Grafier

Insights

Straight serifs join inside letterforms without curves, a structurally unusual construction that sets Grafier apart from conventional transitional serifs.
Five weights (Regular to Black) are each offered in two contrast variants—standard and Display—giving designers ten static styles in total.
A stylistic alternate disconnects the serifs entirely, improving readability at smaller sizes for the low-contrast styles.
All ten styles are also available as a single variable font with two axes.