Milieu Grotesque

Milieu Grotesque fonts have officially joined the Monotype library! This ensures our catalogues will be celebrated, preserved, and placed in the hands of creative professionals around the world. We’re excited to see what Monotype’s ‘fresh pair of eyes’ will bring to the typefaces in terms of technology developments and design evolutions. Follow along at Monotype.

You can also find our fonts here: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/milieu-grotesque-foundry

To celebrate the expansion of the Boutique typeface family, we have created a limited edition silkscreen print, together with visual artist

The signed prints come in a limited edition of 50 and feature a deep black with a textured iridescent effect on 230gsm Europapier Mirror Gloss paper emphasising the contrasting elements of our Boutique family ✨

Printed in Zagreb, Croatia by

For sale in Editions, link in bio.

OUT NOW: B•O•U•T•I•Q•U•E Typeface!

We’re thrilled to share that our expanded and revised Boutique family is finally available. Give it a run? Download your Boutique trial on our website 📎 Link in bio

Many thanks to for the visuals and Christoph Koeberlin for making the magic happen 🖤

💼 Fresh year, fresh job?

We are seeking an additional team member with experience and strength in project management who will support us in running our foundry at executive level.

Application deadline is February 18, 2022, more details: www.milieugrotesque.com/info/?jobs

🔦 1st round of our next release, coming up this autumn! Read more about this and the “fun, fast and then painful” practice of creating typeface systems on 's DESK → vanschneider.com/blog/the-fun-and-fast-art-of-typeface-design-with-type-foundry/

💜 Nice mix of 🟣 Maison Mono and 🟪 Maison Neue Extended in .studios visual identity

🔎 Design Features Close-up: Patron 🔍

Patron is a sans-serif influenced by two dissimilar type designers, Günther Gerhard Lange and Roger Excoffon. Patron unites their contradictory approaches to create an expressive, yet versatile Grotesk.

As a result, Patron is characterised by
1. Precise Modern Design Implementation
2. Flared Stroke Endings
3. Unconventional Balance
4. Generous x-Height

Patron in use by together with for the exhibition design »April 1987 — 33 Jahre später!« at the Association of German Architects Baden-Württemberg

Work in progress of the signage for Zollhaus Zurich by using Patron

📌 Our Maison Neue Cyrillic alphabet supports the most common Eurasian languages, among others Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Serbian—while the Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet, with its extensive diacritical marks, is carefully conceived to help identify the particular tonal distinctions.