About Neuf

Neuf is a French grotesque with roots in the late 1920s. It grew out of "Gravure Taille Douce", a bold sans serif from the catalog of the Fonderie Typographique Française (FTF), where it sat among the "Fantaisies Modernes avec bas de casse" alongside its regular companion, "Gravure Timbrage". Its designer is unknown, most likely one of the foundry's own punch cutters.FTF was formed in 1921 by a group of French foundries (Chaix, Marcou, Saling, Durey, Huart). Less remembered today than Deberny et Peignot or the Fonderie Olive, it supplied much of the lettering of French advertising and signage, with faces such as Champs Elysées, Deauville, Caravelle, Île de France and Paris.At the time, the sans serif was still rare in France, least of all for text, and the Gravure series shows it: this is a grotesque seen through French eyes, full of odd constructions and details that its German and American cousins never had. Neuf takes that character and pushes it. Numerals, symbols and punctuation take the most liberties, some picking up ideas from the metal face, others drawn new for Neuf.The result sits within the tradition of French Antiques, with enough personality to stand out in a crowded genre. A new weight and italics are in the works.

Details

Character set: Latin extended

File formats delivered: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Designed by Eliott Grunewald. Development and mastering by Solenn Bordeau at OTT.

Supported Languages

Afrikaans • Albanian • German • English • Asu • Low German • Lower Sorbian • Basque • Bemba • Bena • Bosnian • Cape Verdean • Catalan • Cebuano • Chewa • Chisena • Cornish • Corsican • Mauritian Creole • Croatian • Danish • Jola-Fonyi • Embu • Spanish • Esperanto • Estonian • Faroese • Filipino • Finnish • French • Friulian • West Frisian • Scottish Gaelic • Galician • Welsh • Ganda • Greenlandic • Gusii • Upper Sorbian • Hungarian • Ido • Indonesian • Interlingua • Interlingue • Irish • Isangu • Icelandic • Italian • Javanese • Jju • Kalenjin • Kamba • Kiga • Kikuyu • Kinyarwanda • Kölsch • Kurdish • Latvian • Ligurian • Lithuanian • Lojban • Lombard • Luo • Luxembourgish • Luyia • Makonde • Makua • Malay • Malagasy • Maltese • Manx • Maori • Matchame • Meru • Northern Ndebele • Southern Ndebele • Dutch • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Nyankole • Occitan • Oromo • Polish • Portuguese • Rejang • Romansh • Rombo • Romanian • Rundi • Rwa • Samburu • Inari Sami • Northern Sami • Sango • Sardinian • Shambala • Shona • Silesian • Slovak • Slovenian • Soga • Somali • Northern Sotho • Southern Sotho • Sundanese • Swedish • Swiss German • Swahili • Swati • Taita • Taroko • Czech • Teso • Tsonga • Tswana • Turkmen • Vmw • Vunjo • Walloon • Walser • Wolastoqey • Wolof • Xhosa • Zhuang • Zulu