Grenze
Designed By
Omnibus-Type
18 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Grenze · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
18 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Grenze ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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Border towns after midnight
A Page In Grenze
Grenze · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
18 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
Border towns after midnight
Thin Italic100
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Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Extra Bold800
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Extra Bold Italic800
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Black900
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Black Italic900
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Between 2 scripts
Grenze is German for frontier, or border, and the font lives on one, the line between Roman letters and Blackletter. Renata Polastri at Omnibus-Type, the collective foundry in Buenos Aires, wanted the dark texture and punch of Blackletter with the readability of classical Roman shapes, and drew it as a text family for magazines.
So the skeleton reads as Roman, with Blackletter weight and texture worked into it. It also sets narrow, which suits columns.
There are 18 styles, 9 weights from Thin to Black with an italic for each, plus old style and lining figures, tabular figures and a slashed zero. Grenze was selected for the Tipos Latinos biennial in 2018. For the full Blackletter version, with more dramatic letters, Omnibus-Type later released Grenze Gotisch.
We’d use the middle weights for a feature article and save the Black for the cover line, where the gothic part of its character shows most.
Characters & Figures
663 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Grenze
18 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 888 KB ↓- Version
- 1.002
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/grenze/grenze.css">
body {
font-family: 'Grenze', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Grenze Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.