Meet Allrounder Grotesk, a good and modest font style and the very first member of the multipurpose Allrounder superfamily.
A workhorse that lives up to its name, Allrounder Grotesk consists of 10 weights varying from a fragile Air to a powerful Black with 900+ glyphs per typeface. Each weight is accompanied by thoroughly hand-corrected italics.
The sans serif typeface supports more than 200 latin-based languages, including the complete "LatinPlus" glyph set developed by underware. It likewise supplies you with a lot of OpenType features and extra goodies: small capitals, 10 sets of figures, case-sensitive forms, ligatures, superiors, fractions and arrows. Equipped like this, you'll be ready for any sort of high quality typesetting situation you might encounter.
The multitalented typeface was developed from 2018 to 2020 by Moritz Kleinsorge. It lays the structure for Kleinsorge's Allrounder superfamily, a series of typefaces sharing the exact same color and horizontal metrics (cap height, small cap height and x-height). The aim of this series is to develop a typesetting system whose elements matches perfectly chime together. See the Grotesk as the very first part of a design package: every serif typeface that will follow in the future, the Grotesk will be a trusted base for blending these typefaces.
Complementing Allrounder Grotesk, you will quickly find Allrounder Serif, a Renaissance Antiqua whose style informed its Grotesk equivalent. While the building concepts of these 2 font households are totally independent from each other, they still balance due to sharing some key qualities, such as metrics and color.
In any kind of style, in any type of medium, dealing with Allrounder Grotesk is uncomplicated. That's why Allrounder got its name.
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