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Gratimo Grotesk
A fresh modernist geometric engineered for reading
Nelle sculture dei primi anni trenta ricorrono alcuni elementi che ne costituiscono la chiave interpretativa: allusioni a parti anatomiche e organi sessuali, posti in dialettico rapporto con le strutture lineari e geometriche entro cui sono inseriti (→ Gabbia, del 1931, Stoccolma, Moderna Museet; Palazzo alle 4 del mattino, Museum of Modern Art di New York). Il ricorso alla Gabbia pone l'idea della scultura come costruzione trasparente, corrispondente plastico dello spazio illusionistico della pittura.
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Gratimo Grotesk is an utilitarian family purpose-built for everyday use, a powerful workhorse in the Geometric Suite that combines elementary shapes and precise construction.

Where Grato Grotesk revels in pure geometry, Gratimo Grotesk has a practical focus. With a robust x-height, open apertures and generous spacing, its more restrained forms were the result of Grato being redrawn for reading. The result is a neo-grotesque that draws on American Gothics from the early 20th century and makes something fresh.

An allrounder specialising in smaller reading sizes and lower resolutions, Gratimo Grotesk is suitable for user interfaces and longform writing. With a compact texture, it is efficient, robust and ready to work at any size. This Sans is a long-lasting companion for brands that value diversity in language and clear screen performance.

For serious typography, Gratimo comes equipped with six weights, from Thin to sturdy Black. For greater distinction, its matching Italics have some cursive character shapes, but give an oblique impression overall.

For the micro-typographic demands of body copy, Gratimo’s default characters ensure maximum legibility, but Gratimo is adaptable. A range of stylistic alternates can give a different accent to text: a single-story a, an uncurled l and others that bring out Gratimo’s geometry. Gratimo has what you need to organise data into information. Subscripts, fractions plus oldstyle and lining figures, each in proportional and tabular widths; a complete range of figure sets.

Carefully engineered, Gratimo is a long-lasting companion for those who value diverse language support and strong screen performance. Including Vietnamese, Gratimo supports more than 270 languages across the Greek, Cyrillic and Latin alphabets and its glyphs has been carefully reviewed by skilled consultants. For best on-screen performance, all TrueType files for web and desktop have been improved with manual hinting.

The Grotesk is available in two optical sizes. For larger sizes and purer geometry, Grato Grotesk is geared for branding and identity design.

Designed by
Jakob Runge, Mona Franz
in 2021
Consulting & Help
Irene Vlachou, Ilya Ruderman & Yury Ostromentsky, Donny Truong, Christoph Koeberlin, Igino Marini
Modern Cyrillic Award 2021
On the shortlist of Modern Cyrillic 2021 competition as a well example of current state of Cyrillic type development.
Granshan Award 2022
Special mention for the very advanced Greek letter design in multiscript Granshan competition.
Specs
Providing 12 styles, 6 weights and more than 1100 glyphs per font.
Formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, and woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SansRegularBody TextInterfaceIdentitySignageLatinCyrillicGreekVietnameseGeometricCleanVariable FontItalicsSuper FamilyAlternates
Related Typefaces
Grato Grotesk, Cera Pro

Styles

  • xLight
  • xLight Italic
  • Light
  • Light Italic
  • Regular
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium
  • Medium Italic
  • Bold
  • Bold Italic
  • Black
  • Black Italic
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 270 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, Vietnamese, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni

Cyrillic: Abaza, Adyghe, Agul, Avar, Azerbaijani, Balkar, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Dargin, Dargwa, Dungan, Erzya, Hill Mari, Ingush, Judeo-Tat, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khinalugh, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgian, Macedonian, Meadow Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Muslim Tat, Nanai, Nogai, Northern Yukaghir, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Serbian, Southern Altai, Tabasaran, Tajik, Tat, Tatar, Tsakhur, Turkmen, Tuvan, Udi, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek

Greek: monotonic Greek
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Case Sensitive, Contextual Alternates, Denominator, 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: Bulgarian Cyrillic Alternates, Stylistic Set: Circled Figures, Stylistic Set: Contrasting Square Dots, Stylistic Set: Double-storey g, Stylistic Set: Geometric Grato Set, Stylistic Set: Geometric, single-storey a, Stylistic Set: Infant and Friendly Set, Stylistic Set: Most Geometric Set, Stylistic Set: Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic Alternates, Stylistic Set: Solid Circled Figures, Stylistic Set: Tabular Width Set, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures

In-Use & Articles

Posterzine about Mental Health
Gratimo Grotesk in Use
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Gratimo Grotesk in der Anwendung
All About Variation
Making Of Gratimo and Grato