Beatrice Standard
Sharp Type · Lucas Sharp, Connor Davenport, Kia Tasbihgou · 2018
Sharp Type's workhorse high-contrast humanist sans, offering seven weights with matching italics across a range suited to editorial, brand and publication work.
About
Beatrice Standard is the general-purpose optical size in Sharp Type's Beatrice family, designed in 2018 by Lucas Sharp, Connor Davenport, and Kia Tasbihgou. It carries the family's characteristic stroke contrast in a more restrained form than the companion Beatrice Display, maintaining readability across a broader range of sizes and settings. Seven weights from Thin to Black, each with a matching italic, give it strong range for editorial and identity applications.
Classification
High-contrast humanist sans-serif with pronounced vertical stress and strong stroke modulation. The "Standard" optical size is calibrated between Beatrice Display (higher contrast, large sizes) and more text-intensive use, giving it a broader working range. The contrast is organic rather than geometric, with letterforms that draw on humanist proportion.