Moore is a rounded display typeface. The project began in collaboration with Olivier Lebrun, who one day showed me a photo of a poster he had come across at the Tate Modern in London. It was a poster created for an exhibition of the sculptor Henry Moore at the Tate Gallery in 1968 (July 18 - September 22).
The poster featured a striking and original display typeface that we both found very interesting and appealing. Olivier then suggested recreating a complete alphabet based on the few letters designed for the poster at the time.
The author or designer of this typeface remains unknown. The poster may have been designed in-house at the Tate Gallery or commissioned from an external designer.
The impact of this typeface immediately struck me as very attractive, its condensed proportions making it possible to compose this kind of short word in a very large way, instantly piquing the viewer's curiosity. Its rounded shapes and highly modular construction ensure that the whole alphabet retains a solid, consistent structure, while retaining a strong sense of originality. The two words that make up the poster gave me a certain number of letters, the modules of which I then used to make an entire alphabet, obviously inventing new shapes and taking a few liberties with certain glyphs. The original version showed a lot of variation in weight from one letter to the next, which may have seemed like mistakes, a lack of consistency in the design, but which instead appeared to me to be something very pleasant to use and to read/see. The essence of this display typeface seemed to me to lie in these details and these little playful inconsistencies, so I decided to keep all these parameters as they were, even accentuating them at times to make a typeface that was very distinctive and easy to use.
Designed by Eliott Grunewald with the help of Olivier Lebrun in 2020
Character set: Latin extended
File formats delivered: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
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