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New release — Sorrel Grotesk, Vol. 02

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Sorrel is a grotesk with a slightly crooked spine: seven weights, a width axis from 75 to 100, and optical sizes drawn separately for 12-point captions and 96-point billboards.

Sorrel · 800 · opsz 96U+0041 U+0067
Cap height 700
x-height 520
Baseline 0
Descender −210
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  1. 01 Eyebrow+0.10s
  2. 02 Headline+0.25s
  3. 03 Specimen+0.60s
  4. 04 Details+0.85s

§ 01 — The family

Seven weights, each one drawn — not interpolated into place.

§ 02 — Character set

684 glyphs, every one of them argued over.

Latin Extended-A, tabular and oldstyle figures, small caps, and an ampersand we kept even though nobody voted for it.

  • U+0041A
  • U+0067g
  • U+0026&
  • U+00DFß
  • U+0052R
  • U+00B6
  • U+00377
  • U+003F?
  • U+0040@
  • U+20AC€
  • U+00F1ñ
  • U+00F8ø

§ 03 — Field notes

“We redrew the lowercaseg eleven times. The twelfthfinally sat on the linelike it meant it.”

— Ines Varga, type designer, Platen

glyphs per weight
684
languages supported
140+
from first sketch to v2
5 yrs

§ 04 — Licensing

Try it free for a month. Pay when it ships.

Desktop licence

€60

per 5 seats

Install the family for layout, branding and print work. Add seats any time.

Choose desktop

Web licence

€90

per 250k views / month

Self-hosted WOFF2 with the variable axes intact. No tracking, no CDN lock-in.

Choose web

App licence

€240

per app title

Embed Sorrel in iOS, Android or desktop software, including future updates.

Choose app
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