When approached to give informal advice on the redesign of the leading German weekly Der Spiegel, Luc(as) de Groot offered to design a completely new headline font. A newly developed typeface, he argued, would...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified March 11, 2021
Calibri is a modern sans serif family with subtle roundings on stems and corners. It features real italics, small caps, and multiple numeral sets. Its proportions allow high impact in tightly set lines of...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Consolas is aimed for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. All characters have the same width, like old typewriters, making it a good choice for personal and...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified March 11, 2021
The name Corpid derives from “Corporate Identity” – which is what this family of low-contrast sans-serifs was made for. Corpid was originally commissioned by Studio Dumbar in the Netherlands as a corporate typeface for...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified March 11, 2021
Type designer Luc(as) de Groot has a large archive of lettering he drew by hand, often to accompany the quirky cartoons which he made in his visual diaries. Only a few of these alpahabets...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified March 11, 2021
Almost every type designer feels the need, from time to time, to interrupt his or her serious work on complex text type systems for something more playful. In Luc(as)’s case this has often meant...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified March 11, 2021
Almost every type designer feels the need, from time to time, to interrupt his or her serious work on complex text type systems for something more playful. In Luc(as)’s case this has often meant...