The style of Utility is inspired by the constructed, industrial and rational typefaces like for example Eurostile or Din 1451. The superellipse structure of the curves lend his typeface that typical technical look, but with a slightly humanistic touch. This humanistic touch was achieved by veering away from the con-struction-based model through handwriting motives. For example the outgoing stroke on the lowercase ‘e’ breaks out of the grid and infuses some dynamism into the letterform.
By opening up the end strokes he lets the characters breathe and improves their legibility. The family has 7 weights and is ideally suited for film & tv, editorial & publishing, logo, branding & corporate design as well as sports. Utility provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, alternate characters, case-sensitive forms, fractions, super- and subscript characters, and stylistic alternates. It comes with small caps and a complete range of figure set options – oldstyle and lining figures, each in tabular and proportional widths.
