Typeface Design for Online and Offline Publishing
Ten weights × four widths × nine numeral variants
Greta Sans is a humanist sans-serif type system released in 2012. Latin was designed by Peter Biľak and Nikola Djurek, with script-specific designers covering Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese. The family spans ten weights across four widths—Compressed, Condensed, Normal, and Expanded. Each weight ships with nine numeral variants accessible via OpenType. A companion symbol font, Greta Symbol, extends the system with over 1,200 symbols per style across ten weights. The family has received awards from TDC (2021), the Society of Typographic Arts (2016), Tokyo TDC (2015), and Granshan (2019).
Set in Greta Sans
Insights
- Optical sizing is built into the weight axis: text-range styles are spaced loosely for small sizes, while Hairline and Black are kerned tightly for display use, creating a continuous display-to-text-to-display spectrum.
- Nine numeral styles per weight—proportional lining (default), old-style, tabular lining, tabular old-style, small caps, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—are selectable via OpenType, with the default variant configurable at licence time.
- Each script was handled by a dedicated specialist: Kristyan Sarkis (Arabic), Hitesh Malaviya (Devanagari), Akaki Razmadze (Georgian), and Sandoll (Korean), among others.
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