Typeface Design for Production Type
Typesetting as gridmaking
InProgress is a multi-spaced sans-serif designed by French studio Superscript² and released through Production Type. Its multi-spacing causes stacked lines of type to form serendipitous alignments, turning text blocks into geometric checkerboard patterns suited to posters, book covers, and title pages. The family references the stoichedon compositional tradition and draws conceptual lineage from Kurt Schwitters and Dada practitioners who treated letterforms as textural material.
Set in InProgress
Insights
- The multi-spaced metric is the core generative mechanism: stacked lines produce serendipitous alignments that form checkerboard-like compositions.
- A set of letters separated by vertical strokes and double-spaced ligatures extend the grid-play into deliberate typographic devices.
- Idiosyncratic alternate glyphs subvert the otherwise sober, technical-lettering aesthetic of the base design.
- The stoichedon reference grounds the concept in a historically documented tradition of orthogonal graphic composition.
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