Typeface Design for Trianon

Exploration of small-size metal cuts drives the design rather than high-contrast display forms

Trianon is a Didone type family designed by Loïc Sander at Production Type, developed through research into Firmin Didot's later work and late 19th- to early 20th-century rational-pen typefaces. The family revives pre-digital optical sizing with four cuts—Caption, Text, Display, and Grande—each tuned to its intended size range. Each subfamily carries five weights with matching italics; the Text size adds one further weight for lighter paragraph colour. An ExtraLight variant introduces nearly monolinear strokes capped by slab serifs and subtle teardrops. The project targets editorial publishing, supplying oldstyle and lining figures, weight-matched ornaments, and a broad weight range for publication hierarchy.

Set in Trianon