Grotesque Fonts

Explore our collection of grotesque fonts, the foundational nineteenth-century sans serifs with tight apertures and slightly irregular proportions.

The grotesques were the first sans serifs to be taken seriously, and their quirks came from being invented rather than refined. Apertures close tightly, curves flatten in places, and widths vary in ways a later geometric face would have regularised. That slight awkwardness is exactly what makes them feel substantial rather than sterile.