I'd worked on sans serif type families before. But this time I wanted to work with a sans in a different way. Work on Shaker had already allowed me some scope to explore the sans serif structure across a range of proportions in a modulated humanist style. Now I wanted to further explore this structural range, but this time, to get away from the humanist forms and work within the grotesque idiom.

From early on I knew the typeface was going to be a big family. It was also going to be monoline in emphasis, with only subtle modulation. Experience here helps a good deal. I've seen my fonts used in many ways; some designers use a light weight, some only the heavy weights, some just the regular and bold. Some ask for new weights to be created. So I decided that the range of weights would be from Thin to Heavy, offering a much wider range to choose from than my other types.

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