Niveau Grotesk

Niveau Grotesk

Designer: Hannes von Döhren
Year: 2013
Related Typefaces: Niveau Serif

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Explore Niveau Grotesk. The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Niveau Grotesk is influenced by classical nineteenth-century faces, the fonts are based on geometric forms. Because of its straight architecture, it punches in big sizes but is very legible in smaller sizes and longer texts — in print or on screen. The Fonts is equipped for complex, professional typography with alternate letters, arrows, fractions and an extended character set to support Central and Eastern European as well as Western European Languages.

All 18 Styles

ExtraLight

ExtraLight Small Caps

ExtraLight Italic

Light

Light Small Caps

Light Italic

Regular

Regular Small Caps

Regular Italic

Medium

Medium Small Caps

Medium Italic

Bold

Bold Small Caps

Bold Italic

Black

Black Small Caps

Black Italic

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HIGHWAY PATROL
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MANUFACTURED
Components & Engines

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DEVELOPMENTS
New Flagship Model

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COMPONENT 24
Architecture of Luxury

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AERODYNAMICS
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A typeface that breathes craft & excellence.

Niveau Grotesk

Geometric Modernism

When I started to design Niveau Grotesk I had several ideas on this geometric sans. I always admired the creativity and ideas of ITC Serif Gothic (Herb Lubalin, Antonio DiSpigna, 1974) and ITC Kabel (Rudolf Koch, Victor Caruso, 1927/1976). To my eyes these type families are super creative but from todays point of view they felt a bit clunky and antiquated. I also loved the Avant Garde type family (Herb Lubalin, 1968) with its geometric skeleton and extravagant letterforms. All these type faces are not very useful for reading sizes and longer texts. Influenced by these great, classic forms I was motivated to create a totally new typeface – smoother, timeless and good for reading sizes.

Niveau Grotesk should feel reduced but it also should have the attitude to be extravagant. Niveau Grotesk inspires the viewer with its self confidence, but it can also handle the hard work: longer texts and reading sizes. For those who still want to get one step further I created an additional family based on Niveau Grotesk with tiny serifs quoting the typefaces of the engraving era: Niveau Serif.

Based on geometric principles, Niveau Grotesk scores with some extravagant details.

OpenType Features – or what else you can do with it, besides designing your next logo.

A font of today’s needs has to include more than just the alphabet and some punctuation. Besides a big number of accented letters, making sure that the typeface has a good language support, a font should include several features for excellent typographic work joining forces with the layout applications of the time and of course the user. Here is a selection of what this font family has to offer under the hood.

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Alternates

Besides the standard letters a font sometimes contains several versions of a letter called alternates. You can exchange the alternate with the standard letter by selecting it through the Opentype feature panel and every letter of the stylistic set will be exchanged. Often this results in a totally different optical appearance of the typeface.

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Fractions

If fractions are needed anywhere an OpenType code makes sure that if you type any numbers combined with a slash between a fraction will automatically be substituted.

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Oldstyle Figures

When lining figures are used in a reading text they often produce a visual stretch in the text and disturb the grey value. It has the same effect if you use ALL CAPS in a text. One solution could be to make the numbers slightly smaller and give them some more space in-between. The other, more elegant way is to use the old style figures, they have ascenders and descenders like the lower case letters and will fit seamlessly in the text.

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Subscript

A subscript is a character that is set slightly below the normal line of type. They are used in formulas, mathematical expressions, and specifications of chemical compounds and isotopes, but can have many other uses as well. These characters are not simply ordinary characters reduced in size – to keep them visually consistent with the rest of the font, they are slightly heavier than a reduced-size character would be.

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Superscript

A superscript is a character that is set slightly above the line of type. It has the same weight and size like a subscript character. They are also used in formulas, mathematical expressions and text references, but can have many other uses as well.

In addition to Niveau Grotesk we created Niveau Serif — inspired by engravers typefaces.

Niveau Family

A Type System

The idea behind Niveau was to create a super family consisting of a clean and precise sans family which is combinable with a more extroverted serif family. The two genres have the same skeleton but details and several letters are totally different. So each family work on its own and doesn't need its related counterpart – but they are also made to work together to unfold a unique strength. → Check out Niveau Serif.

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Niveau Grotesk has 380 characters and supports 96 languages:

Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Comorian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino/Tagalog, Finnish, Flemish, French, Gaelic, Gagauz, German, Gikuyu, Gilbertese/Kiribati, Haitian-Creole, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luba/Ciluba/Kasai, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Marquesan, Moldovan/Romanian, Montenegrin, Nauruan, Ndebele, Norwegian, Oromo, Palauan/Belauan, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Samoan, Sango, Serbian, Sesotho, Setswana, Seychellois-Creole, Swazi, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok-Pisin, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Uzbek, Wallisian, Walloon, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu

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Niveau Serif

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