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Moritz Sans

Typeface Created December 2015, last updated 01 September 2021 Moritz Sans is a modern Grotesk originally conceptualized and developed as a web font intended to be legible in even the smallest sizes. The typeface was born out of the idea of making a Sans based on the beautiful Serif Palatino, drawn up from scratch and infused with my own ideas.

The first version, called GP-base24, has since been expanded, to seven weights, and includes a proper italic version as well! (read more here)

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Moritz Sans

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Picture specimen of GP-base24, the predecessor to Moritz Sans

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About:

Outset:

In choosing a font for Juliette's Learn German website, the general direction we wanted for the site to go was clear: Juliette had picked Verdana during her development of the site, and it worked very well for subject. Being a very wide and easily legible typeface, it was the ideal choice for a website about learning and comprehending a new language through text.

History:

Designing a typeface for learngerman.tips was the perfect opportunity to do something I had wanted to do for a long time—Designing a Sans Typeface based on an existing Serif font. After learning about the history of the typeface for the Deutsche Bahn (christianschwartz.com), I found it intriguing to develop a Sans family based on an existing Serif typeface. Since Spiekermann and Schwartz based DB Type on a Garamont (or sorts), I had for a while planned to go the most obvious route and use the arguably most ubiquitous Serif there is: Times New Roman. After doing a few sketches (insert sketch here), I quickly realized that, while the resulting typeface had potential, it didn't meet one of the key requirements I wanted: To be wide. After searching a bit through the "basics", I came across Palatino, which does run beautifully wide, and is a very pretty and legible Serif.

One of the other factors in choosing to make a Palatino-based Sans was that it differentiates between the shapes of the letters b, p, q, d - something not every modern Serif does, but something that was very important to have in a typeface that should take all the guesswork out of reading.

For the capital letters I wanted something a little bit more clean and German - technical, if you will. I based the Capitals on my own "NEUE mogobau" typeface, which itself is inspired by the Futura model. I made the shapes quite a bit wider and more open, to match the minuscule letters.

The Final Product:

With only about 24 hours of time to conceptualize, draw and digitize the first version of the typeface, the deadline was quite fierce - but sometimes a deadline really helps, and I am quite proud of what was achieved in such a short period of time.

Since Moritz Sans is the typeface of the Learn German website, we needed to not only make the typeface very legible: Wide, with lots of room, generous spacing and a larger x-height - we also needed to make sure the individual letter shapes are easily distinguished, and not alike. Even though they all face in different directions, a b is easily mistaken as a p, b and q. An l cannot look like a 1 or in I, an 8 like a B or an ß, and rn may not run together into an m. To achieve this, each letter has - subtly, but noticeably - their own distinct and unique shape and forms.