Industry: Design

SangBleu

45 styles, five collections, one shared spirit

SangBleu is a completely new design from Swiss Typefaces, replacing and discontinuing the studio's earlier typeface of the same name. It comprises five distinct collections—Empire, Kingdom, Republic, Versailles, and Sunrise—totalling 45 styles across four or five weights each with matching italics. Rather than following conventional serif/sans/slab or optical-size hierarchies, each collection carries a distinctive voice intended to serve specific purposes or stylistic preferences. The five collections share a common spirit and are designed to complement one another when mixed.

Set in SangBleu Empire, SangBleu Kingdom, SangBleu Republic, SangBleu Versailles, SangBleu Sunrise

Insights

The supercollection rejects standard typeface classification axes (serif/sans/slab, display/text/caption) in favour of organising collections by expressive character.
Empire is the sole collection to include Black weights, pushing thick-thin contrast to its maximum.
Republic's earlier working title was SangBleu Works, reflecting its proximity to the utilitarian Suisse Works within the broader library.
Cyrillic was developed in collaboration with Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky of CSTM Fonts, covering a broad range of Cyrillic-script languages across all subfamilies.