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Base Grotesk

Bolditalic · Dmitry Goloub

sans-serifneo-grotesque
Base Grotesk specimen from Bolditalic

A neo-grotesque designed around unobtrusive letterforms with meticulously calibrated proportions, available as a variable font spanning nine weights.

About

Base Grotesk is built on the premise that a typeface should function as a foundation rather than draw attention to itself. Equal heights for capitals, ascenders and lowercase diacritics give text a consistent rhythm, while round dots and matching commas introduce a subtle warmth unusual for the genre. The family covers an exceptionally broad range of languages across Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Armenian scripts.

Classification

Explicitly described as a neo-grotesque, designed for minimal visual intrusion with carefully calibrated proportions and sidebearings. Friendly round dots and matching commas distinguish it from harder-edged neo-grotesques while retaining the genre's overall neutrality.

Weights

ThinExtralightLightRegularMediumSemiboldBoldExtraboldBlack

Languages

LatinCyrillicGreekArmenianVietnamese

Tags

neo-grotesqueneutralvariableworkhorsemultilingualcyrillicfunctionaltext

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