MegaMegaTypeType
A geometric sans by Cyrus Highsmith that pulls from European art deco, American sign lettering and modernist geometry across five weights and four widths.
About
Drawn by Cyrus Highsmith and first released in 2001, Relay is the designer's nearest point to a pure geometric sans, though it picks up divergent influences along the way: European art deco letterforms, American sign-painting conventions and modernist structural logic sit in uneasy, productive tension. The family spans five weights from Light to Black across four widths — standard, Wide, Condensed and Compressed — each with matching italics, giving it considerable range across headline and text settings.
Classification
Highsmith describes it as his closest approach to a geometric sans, drawing on art deco, American sign lettering and modernist geometry, placing it firmly in the geometric tradition with humanist inflections.