Lyon typeface family
The Lyon family of typefaces was originally Kai’s graduation project in the Type]Media master programme, based on historical models of the 16th century punch cutter Robert Granjon.
Some time after the course, the family was completely rethought as a contemporary book and publication typeface that reflects our convictions about modern digital typeface design: A decisively digital outline treatment that reveals our modern repertoire of tools, and the typeface itself as a modern design tool, paired with a certain Times-like unobtrusiveness in text sizes, contrastes nicely with Lyon’s 16th century heritage.
Lyon Text family in 10 styles: Regular, Regular No. 2, Semibold, Bold, Black, with italics, small caps, 6 figure styles, contextual and stylistic alternates etc.
Lyon debuted as the new text face for the New York Times Magazine in June 2009 and is now available for licensing from Commercial Type, without the help, guidance and consultation of whom it would have taken us another three years to finish it, at least. Thanks, Christian and Paul!
Display family forthcoming. Watch this space.
