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Antique Legacy

Optimo · François Rappo

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sans-serifneo-grotesque
Antique Legacy specimen from Optimo

François Rappo's Swiss neo-grotesque, a fresh reading of the modernist line that runs from Walter Käch to Helvetica.

About

Antique Legacy returns to the Swiss grotesque more than sixty years after the style's peak, tuning the relationship between letterforms and their counters rather than adding novelty. It covers Light to Bold and works as a dependable text and display sans with a measured, slightly warmer voice than its ancestors.

Classification

A Swiss neo-grotesque that revisits the line from Walter Käch's letter studies of the late 1940s to Helvetica, with close attention to the balance of form and counterform.

Weights

LightMediumSemiboldBold

Languages

Latin

Tags

neo-grotesqueswisssans-serifmodernistworkhorseeditorialbranding

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