Informations

Petit Frère is a surprising duo, of both rivals and accomplices. It is the quiet sibling to some more outspoken designs from the Plain Form catalogue. Distilled from these sources, namely Grandmaster for the Narrow cuts and Nostra Sett for the Wide, Petit Frère proposes the two extremes of a centerless design space, two takes on the sans-serif genre meant to complement each other.



Family

28 styles

Release

2022

Related typefaces

Grandmaster
Nostra Sett



Notes on design


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28 styles

Narrow

Extralight

  

Extralight Italic

  

Light

  

Light Italic

  

Regular

  

Regular Italic

  

Medium

  

Medium Italic

  

Bold

  

Bold Italic

  

Extrabold

  

Extrabold Italic

  

Black

  

Black Italic

  

Wide

Extralight

  

Extralight Italic

  

Light

  

Light Italic

  

Regular

  

Regular Italic

  

Medium

  

Medium Italic

  

Bold

  

Bold Italic

  

Extrabold

  

Extrabold Italic

  

Black

  

Black Italic

  
Faience coffeemaker (photo: Coyau, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Kluyveromyces lactis plate (photo: SoupI, CC BY-SA 4.0)
“Family Group”, Henry Moore, 1950
Grandmaster, starting point for Petit Frère Narrow
Nostra, starting point for Petit Frère Wide

OpenType features

Ray+GigRay+Gig
Cross-style forms (ss01)
IllicoIllico
Serif IJijl (ss02)
GitGit
Alternate G (ss03)
QuillQuill
Alternate Q (ss04)
RunRun
Alternate R (ss05)

daddad

Alternate a (ss06)

igoigo

Alternate g (ss07)

triotrio

Alternate r (ss08)

keykey

Alternate y (ss09)

U&iU&i

Alternate & (ss10)
No*”No*”
Thin punctuation (ss11)
361A361A
Tabular figures (tnum)

E3E3

Superscript (sups)

B4B4

Subscript (subs)
1/2H1/2H
Fractions (frac)

30s30s

Slashed zero (zero)
(IAM)(IAM)
Case-sensitive (case)

Additional information

Design

Lucas Descroix

Font formats

OTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Glyph count

ca. 620 glyphs

Coverage

Extended Latin

For more information on the character set and language coverage, please have a look at the PDF specimen.