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Typeface Design for Yuni Grotesque

Compressed sans with an 18° italic and 900+ glyphs per style

Yuni Grotesque is a compressed sans-serif type family by TypeMates designer Philipp Neumeyer, released in 2025 as part of the Yuni Collection, with Yuni Slab as its serifed companion. The family spans 12 styles across six weights—Hair to Black—each with italics sloped at 18°. Each style contains over 900 glyphs supporting more than 270 languages across Latin and native-approved Cyrillic scripts.

Set in Yuni Grotesque

Insights

Counter curves grow toward circular as weight increases, while outer curves remain comparatively flat—creating deliberate curvature tension across the weight range.
Italic styles are set at an expressive 18° slope, steeper than conventional italic angles.
Cyrillic support includes localized stylistic sets for Bulgarian (ss08), Serbian (ss09), and Macedonian (ss10) alternates.
A dedicated circled-figure ligature feature (ss03) converts bracketed numerals such as (4) or [4] into circled glyphs.