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Rosco Jr!
Strong, chunky, gloriously loud.
Bold Attitude & New Narratives ❣
Victor Andrew Caruso joined Photo-Lettering Inc. in the mid-1950s, where he reimagined Paul Renner's iconic 1920s design. His 1960 version featured an extra large lowercase, creating letterforms as if the technology of film and phototypesetting had existed in Renner’s era.
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Rosco Jr is a bouncy, brassy and poco-loco geo-grotesque. Technical, but not perfect, it’s a punchy mash up drawing on iconic geometric sans of the 1930s and how they were reimagined in the 60s.
 

Although it draws on Erbar and Renner, Rosco Jr’s heart is in what those faces became later: the bold display styles of the phototypesetting era reimagined Fette Kabel and Futura Maxi with short caps and cropped ascenders.

To its collision of humanist strokes with the sharp, static anatomy of grotesques, Rosco Jr adds a playful tension between compact caps and wide lowercase with a tall x-height; between unfussy letterforms and the precision of Swiss execution. All of that pushed into a bold, heavy sans aesthetic — even in the light weights.

In short, Rosco Jr is strong and funky, inflated and chunky. It’s tailored for supersized typography turned up to 11. Built for vivid brands, big shelf presence and text that stops the scroll. On screen, it shines in hero headlines, H2s, and UI labels that need weight.

Swinging from italic to backslanted angles with a variable slant axis, Rosco offers geometry in motion. Circular dots and counter shapes bounce elliptically, stretch, squeeze and stay always, always slightly off-balance.

Jam packed with an extensive Latin character set and all the usual OpenType essentials. Tabular figures, oldstyle figures, localised alternates, and flip the vibe with the beautifully off stylistic variants: the double-storey a, the humanist s and 3, or the brutalist k and r.
Chunky funky Rosco Jr doesn’t ask for attention. It takes it.
 

Designed by
Jakob Runge
in 2026
Consulting & Help
Igino Marini with iKern, Sebastian Carewe with Italify
Specs
Providing 18 styles, 6 weights in Normal, Slanted and Backslanted, more than 630 glyphs per font.
Formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, and woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SansRegularCondensedHeadlinesIdentityPublishingLatinGeometricCleanExpressiveElegantVariable FontItalicsDuplexAlternatesIcons
Related Typefaces
Grato Classic, Grato Grotesk, Gustine Vaganza, Cera Pro

Styles

  • Thin
  • Light
  • Regular
  • Medium
  • Bold
  • Black
  • Thin Italic
  • Light Italic
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium Italic
  • Bold Italic
  • Black Italic
  • Thin Retalic
  • Light Retalic
  • Regular Retalic
  • Medium Retalic
  • Bold Retalic
  • Black Retalic
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 200 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Case Sensitive, Contextual Alternates, Denominators, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Ligatures, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Old style Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set 01: Double-Storey a, Stylistic Set 02: Infant y, Stylistic Set 03: Brutalist Alternates KKr, Stylistic Set 04: Humanist Ss, Stylistic Set 05: Alternate Q, Stylistic Set 06: Soft 3, Stylistic Set 07: Humanist Alternates Set, Stylistic Set 10: Circled Figures, Stylistic Set 11: Black Circled Figures, Stylistic Set 12: Tabular Width Set, Stylistic Set 20: Smart Typography, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures

In-Use & Articles

Dry-transfer lettering sheet. Limited edition. Free for the first 30 people to buy the full Rosco Jr family.