Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Digital and Print Publications

84 styles engineered for simultaneous print and digital publishing

Tablet Gothic is a grotesque sans serif family released in 2012 (now at version 2) by TypeTogether. Veronika Burian and José Scaglione engineered it for publications releasing content simultaneously in print and digital formats, with additional type design by Yorlmar Campos and Tom Grace. The family spans 84 static styles—six width series from Compressed to Wide, seven weights each, plus matching obliques—and is also available as a variable font.

Set in Tablet Gothic

Insights

The nearly vertical stress axis was a deliberate structural choice the foundry identifies as enabling consistent visual identity across the full width range without style drift.
Burian and Scaglione identified common grotesque failure modes—competing terminals, inadequate internal space in heavy weights, lack of directional movement—and addressed them through diagonal terminal angles and controlled counter spacing.
The foundry notes the diagonal-terminal effect is most pronounced in semibold and heavier weights, where terminal definition increases visual propulsion through words.
The family supports over 200 Latin-extended languages and includes OpenType features such as arbitrary fractions, superiors/inferiors, and tabular figures across every style.