Formale Grotesque
Formale Grotesque is a sans-serif typeface published by Binnenland in 2019, designed by Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen. It comes in 12 weights, with italics. It is one of 12 typefaces from Binnenland in the Type.lol catalog, 6 of them sans-serif.
From the foundry
The 'Formale Grotesque' fits into the typographic tradition of sans serif typefaces dating back to the late 19th century. The starting point was a found object, an alphabet board from the 1930s with capital letters. A design that is not a response to an existing grotesque or neo-grotesque font, but the interpretation of an attitude. Lowercase letters were derived from the capital letters. With a low stroke weight contrast, it takes a fresh approach in mixing geometrically constructed and dynamic forms. Throughout the entire font development process, large-format drafts were drawn by hand, as they were common before the digital age, to explore the quality between the perfection of the computer software and the interpretative qualities of an intuitive drawing line.
Published by Binnenland
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- sans
- Weights
- L1, L1-It, L2, L2-It, L3, L3-It, L4, L4-It, N1, N1-It, N2, N2-It
- Released
- 2019