Typeface Family for Typotheque
A geometric sans built for the whole world, not adapted to it
Ping is a geometric sans serif designed by Typotheque with an international scope, supporting twelve scripts including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Devanagari, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and several European scripts. The Latin letterforms were drawn with minimal pen strokes—certain lowercase letters completed without lifting the pen—while proportions were calibrated from the outset to integrate naturally with each co-designed script. Released in 2019, it received a Gold European Design Award the same year.
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Insights
- Latin proportions were adjusted specifically to harmonise with each of the other scripts, rather than other scripts being retrofitted to a Latin base.
- A unicase OpenType feature mixes lowercase letters with small caps within the shared x-height zone.
- Each weight ships with nine numeral variants: lining, old-style, tabular (both styles), superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted; licensees can select a custom default.
- The family required script specialists for each encoding—fourteen named designers across Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, and Thai.
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