Typeface Family for Typotheque
A type family built on personality and age, not stroke weight
Riggs is a clean sans-serif designed by Nikola Djurek and released by Typotheque in 2020. It forms one half of the Murtaugh & Riggs duo, a complementary pair structured around the concept of age rather than conventional stroke-width relationships. Riggs takes the role of the younger partner, offering generous proportions, a large x-height, flowing curves, and optional angular alternates that add urgency to text. The family spans three widths—Normal, Condensed, and Extended—across six weights.
Insights
- The Murtaugh & Riggs project reframes family construction around a conceptual axis of age rather than the traditional stroke-width spectrum.
- Riggs offers nine numeral variants per weight—including proportional old-style, lining, tabular, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—with the default figure style selectable at licence time.
- Riggs extends to three widths (Normal, Condensed, Extended) while its partner Murtaugh covers only two; the combined duo totals 60 styles.
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