Release No. 001
Kontur Grotesk — a neutral sans in nine weights & matching italics
Zürich · Est. 2019
Type Specimen No. 001 · Aa–Zz

Kontur Grotesk.

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Overview01

A neutral grotesque cut on a strict twelve-column logic — engineered for signage, editorial and screen. Nine weights, matching italics, and coverage for 219 languages across Latin Extended.

Weight
  • GroteskThin 100
  • GroteskRegular 400
  • GroteskBold 700
  • GroteskBlack 900
Regular · 40018 pt / 240 pt
Aa
Kontur GroteskLatin Ext.
Styles18
Weights9 + italics
Glyphs / style842
Languages219
Complete family CHF 320desktop OTF · WOFF2 · VAR
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The Cut
01
Thin
100
02
Light
300
03
Regular
400
04
Book
450
05
Medium
500
06
Semibold
600
07
Bold
700
08
Extrabold
800
09
Black
900
02 — Character Set
Uppercase · Lowercase · Figures · Symbols
842 glyphs · Latin Extended
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03 — Size Specimen
Optical performance from headline to caption
10 – 72 pt
72 ptBold · Display
Objectivity is a position
48 ptBold · Heading
Basel, Zürich & Bern signage
32 ptRegular · Subhead
The grid gives the eye a place to rest.
24 ptRegular · Deck
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
18 ptRegular · Body
Clarity is not decoration; it is the whole argument for the work.
14 ptRegular · Caption
Set on a twelve-column grid at a 4 mm baseline — figures are tabular by default. 0123456789
04 — Licensing
One clear price per medium
Perpetual · CHF
01 Desktop CHF 40/ style Complete family · CHF 320
Up to 5 workstations. Print, packaging and static export. Perpetual, one-time.
02 Web CHF 60/ style Complete family · CHF 480
Up to 500,000 monthly pageviews. Self-hosted WOFF2 with variable option.
03 App CHF 120/ style Complete family · CHF 960
One iOS or Android application. OTF embedding, unlimited installs.
04 Broadcast On request Film, TV & out-of-home
Motion, cinema and large-format campaigns. Scoped per project with the studio.

Trials are free for testing. Every desktop licence ships with variable and static OTF, WOFF2 web fonts, and the 96-page printed specimen — set, as always, in Kontur Grotesk.

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