About this Typeface

Maschek grotesk is a versatile and distinctive type family specifically designed for display and editorial use. It radiates a clear and reliable stability in accordance with a soft and warm appearance. Its letterform proportions and construction details result in a trustworthy and serious yet friendly personality – garnished with a pinch of humor.

While the heavy weights are perfectly suited for impactful display use, the well balanced text weights achieve remarkable legibility results. The large character set of 936 glyphs per style offers extended latin language support as well as various OpenType features such as small caps, ­case sensitive forms, 12 different figure sets, 9 stylistic sets, fractions, contextual alternates and many more.

This type family consists of 22 fonts: eleven weights plus corresponding italics, offering
a wide range from razorblade
thin to well balanced text weights
and even expressive ultra-fat display styles.

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In German language use »grotesk« is the general term for sans serif type­faces (including, but not limited to »grotes­ques«). Furthermore the adjective »grotesk« means preposterous or bizarre, »[…], and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms …« (Wikipedia – grotesque)

These are attributes that match both, the comedians‘ exploits – creating grotesque situations – , as well as how the letterforms are constructed: When you closely look at Maschek Grotesk’s curves you will notice that every curvature includes a corner somewhere. That’s just like squaring the circle. Grotesque, isn’t it? Similarily the type­face’s stems are neither soley angular nor rounded. Rather they have influences from both sides: the usual one and the »maschek-side«.

Affectionately constructed with passion
and hand-carved precision.

And there’s even more going on behind the
scenes – have a look at some of
Maschek Grotesk’s technical aspects: