New Release: Graphik Wide

Graphik is an exceptionally complete system of sans serifs designed to be a blank slate, perfectly suited for any style of expression. With the release of Graphik Wide, the rational grid of eight widths from XXXX Condensed to Wide, and nine weights with italics, is now complete.

Graphik Wide was first conceptualized during the earliest days of Commercial Type, during a late night work session when Christian Schwartz was roughing out the narrower widths of Graphik and designer Abi Huynh was creating the format for the PDF specimens. “I was pushing Graphik narrower and narrower Abi said, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny to do a wide as well?’ so I sketched it out in an evening, and we knew it would work.”

Widening Graphik wasn’t without its challenges. As a typeface gets wider, the tops and bottoms of characters will often flatten out and curves will generally become more rectangular, but this approach did not suit Graphik. “I kept trying to make it feel as round as possible. It was really about adapting the proportional relationships between the letterforms and keeping the consistent feeling of Graphik. It’s like tire pressure—how inflated the bowls and counters are effects everything else.”

Graphik Wide further broadens the utility of the Graphik collection with new options for posters, book covers, editorial opening spreads, and even small text. In the thinnest weights, Graphik Wide expresses itself in an elegant and forthright manner while the heaviest weights assertively demand the reader’s attention.

Graphik Wide is now available for licensing on its own or as part of the Graphik Collection.