Typeface Design for Tempel Grotesk

Four widths of black sans built for maximum ink on the page

Tempel is a blocky black sans-serif family from Production Type's LAB, issued in two subfamilies. Tempel Grotesk spans four widths, producing dense, heavily inked pages where counterforms contribute visual texture—an effect the source notes is enhanced when widths are mixed. Tempel Softland is a rounded variant in three compressed styles—Condensed, Ultra Condensed, and Compressed—where letters become near-rectangular blocks that stack into word-level masses, pushing compressed-rounded design toward a brutalist extreme.

Set in Tempel Grotesk, Tempel Softland