Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Bridge Head

18 display styles across three widths and six weights

Bridge Head is a display serif type family by Mona Franz, developed as a TypeMedia 2018 master project in The Hague under Erik van Blokland, Paul van der Laan, and Peter Verheul, and released by TypeMates in 2019. The family spans three widths—regular, extended, and condensed—each in six weights, totalling 18 styles. Distinctive features include wedge serifs, four-cornered counter shapes, voluminous terminals, and monolinear strokes connecting thick elements. It is designed to pair with the companion text family Bridge Text for editorial and corporate typographic systems.

Set in Bridge Head

Insights

Thin strokes are kept at full volume rather than tapered, a deliberate counter to conventional high-contrast display type.
Monolinear connecting strokes between thick elements give the family a graphic, almost constructed quality.
The glyph set reaches 830 characters with manicules, dingbats, circled figures, and support for over 200 Latin languages.
OpenType feature set includes four stylistic sets: alternate German eszett, solid circled figures, circled figures, and a tabular width set.