Massimo Grafia
Massimo Grafia is a linear-grotesque typeface in three styles (Standard, Mono and Semi Mono) and 4 weights, combining powerful hand-drawn forms with rigorous graphic precision. The neutral basic for professional use is supplemented by alternate glyphs, creating the scope for highly expressive typographic design: For all lowercase and uppercase letters and standard numerals at least five and in some cases as many as 14 variants are available. These can be selected and interchanged manually or automatically (OpenType support required). Massimo Grafia was designed by Gabriel Richter and Andreas Uebele.
Massimo Grafia basic is a well constructed, calm but individual grotesque for everyday use. Superior and inferior figures, tabular and standard numerals, fractions and symbols make it suitable for professional applications
At the same time Massimo Grafia opens the door to vibrant and expressive design: For both lowercase and uppercase alphabets and all standard numerals at least five alternates are available.
Massimo Grafia Regular
Massimo Grafia Medium
Massimo Grafia Bold
Variable Font
Massimo Grafia supports two variable axis: Weight and Mono. When you purchase the entire static font family, you also receive the variable font data (both desktop and web versions) at no extra cost.
Massimo Grafia Plain
In the case you don’t use any of the alternate characters, the font would become too bloated. That’s what Massimo Grafia Plain is for: it includes only the standard character set, saving a significant amount ofstorage space, thereby making loading times much faster — especially on the web. With the purchase of each weight, the Massimo Grafia Plain version is included at no extra cost.
Process
During his scholarship at Villa Massimo in Rome, Andreas Uebele caught up with his correspondence, writing 250 letters by hand. Gabriel Richter took the extravagant forms of individual characters and expanded them into Massimo Grafia.
Creating the base
In order to extend Massimo Grafia’s range of potential applications, Richter and Uebele subsequently hand-drew a basic typeface, establishing a calm backdrop for the various alternates. The outcome is a versatile and effective font with a distinctively hand-drawn style.
Alternates language support
Andreas Uebele’s original correspondence did not contain all the various special characters, numerals and symbols – so these were added later to cover the full range of typographic and linguistic requirements.
Supported Languages
Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Comorian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, 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
InDesign CC example
Glyph Order and Preglyphs
All nice to type fonts provide a structured glyph order with special
preglyphs for a better overview – just choose ‘CID / GID’ instead of
‘Unicode’ in your Glyphs overview. To save webspace and loading time
webfonts don’t come with preglyphs.
Typeface Massimo Grafia
Designed by Gabriel Richter and Andreas Uebele
Published in 2018
Fontproduction by Christoph Koeberlin
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Massimo Grafia is a trademark of nice to type
Copyright © 2018 by nice to type – Gabriel Richter. All rights reserved.