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GT Pressura uses the visual gesture of ink spreading under pressure as a stylistic device, bringing the warmth of analog print back to the digital design space. Available exclusively at Grilli Type, now with extended weights and a refreshed design.

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GT Pressura draws inspiration from conceptual art and Constructivist aesthetics.

In 2008, Marc Kappeler and Dominik Huber began designing GT Pressura. The designers of Moiré (a Zurich-based graphic design studio) needed a typeface for a book about conceptual art in the former Soviet Union and decided to design their own. During their research, they were inspired by early Constructivist artists to achieve their vision: A contemporary typographic solution combining utilitarianism and abstract-driven aesthetics.

GT Pressura was first released in 2012, followed by Cyrillic language support in 2017. This 2022 update is Marc and Dominik’s Swiss Style take on the typeface: grid-driven, polished, and charismatic.

GT Pressura nods to industrial uses of type that were more for utility than anything else—like on shipping boxes, where condensed typography proved to be highly functional within limited space.

GT Pressura’s narrow design and low contrast makes for large, expressive typesetting that maintains a comfortable rhythm and a strong visual impact.

GT Pressura’s mechanic personality is packed tightly into this Mono version that’s based on typewriter style, emphasizing its warmth and regularity. The uppercase letters from the Standard width serve as the basis for an even more rigorous Mono width, and added italics bring flexibility to its strict nature.

The Extended subfamily gives GT Pressura room to breathe, embracing a more organic rhythm with a variety of character widths. In its departure from GT Pressura’s strict beginnings, the type becomes more elegant and “more Swiss Style,” according to Moiré. Extended has the approachable proportions of a modernist grotesque typeface with completely mechanical design details.

GT Pressura’s form is inspired by the transfer of ink to paper, where stamped letters transform under the pressure of a printing press and emerge on the paper as a completely new version of the type—rounded and imperfect, an element of the design that only exists as a result of this process.

Typography’s evolution has embraced changing technologies, eventually bringing extremely polished HiFi versions of once-metal typefaces to the screen. GT Pressura recovers the warm characteristics of analog design and optimizes them for the digital age.

GT Pressura is constructed with strategic half-arcs and straightened elements to form the skeleton of the typeface. The quarter-circle shapes are assembled and then adjusted to allow for flexibility in the design, contrasting a monotone width and industrial horizontals with simple, unrefined shapes.

This new version of GT Pressura comes with three added weights: Text, Medium, and Black. Text counters the added weight from the ink gain for a more regularized body copy weight, while Medium and Black allow for bolder expressions. The rounded letters always create the same outline no matter the weight, behaving the way that letters would in analog printing. Each weight appears slightly heavier than the name suggests to reflect the results of ink under pressure.

GT Pressura gets a thoughtful update from its original 2012 version. The Extended style allows for a new freedom of movement, and added intermediate weights increase design possibilities.

The spacing has been overhauled to more accurately fit the typeface’s proportions: descenders are slightly shortened to allow for more economical typesetting with less line spacing, and white spaces now correspond better with each letter—rigid design with a techno beat.

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All of our typefaces cover the Latin alphabet, including additional characters required to support almost 200 languages—from Afaan to Zuni. GT Pressura features Cyrillic, Greek, and Vietnamese add-ons and typeface matching for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

The Standard GT Pressura encoding now supports 196 Latin-based languages. We’re also offering a Vietnamese add-on to complement the typeface, created in consultation with Donny Trương.

As GT Pressura’s roots came from Cyrillic-centric arts, this was the first language addition to the typeface. Its newest version also includes a re-worked character set, developed in consultation with Anya Danilova.

The Greek script is an ideal language extension because of its visual crossover with the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. We consulted Vassilis Georgiou to ensure that the type feels familiar to native-readers.

Our partners at Type Project, Sandoll, and Arphic designed Chinese, Korean, and Japanese type options that work with GT Pressura’s style. These matching fonts are available upon request.

We’ve worked with our Taiwan-based partner Arphic to match GT Pressura with their typeface AR JingXiRunHei for Simplified Chinese. A Traditional Chinese option is also available.

We’ve collaborated with our Japanese partners Type Project on many designs. To match GT Pressura, they chose their typeface TP Sky Round. It includes both Kanji and Kana characters.

We’ve collaborated with Sandoll to match their typeface Sandoll GothicNeoRound with ours—this typeface performs well both functionally and aesthetically with GT Pressura.

GT Pressura unearths the imperfections of analog design and optimizes them for the digital age in a newly refreshed family. A new Standard is set, Mono holds space in the balance, and Extended showcases what’s possible when you allow the type to draw its own boundaries. New weights complement each subfamily’s unique design.

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Designed by Dominik Huber and Marc Kappeler (Moiré). Script extensions by Dominik Huber with Grilli Type. Exclusively available at Grilli Type. Consulting by Panos Haratzopoulos (Greek) and Donny Trương (Vietnamese).

Website and animations designed by Grilli Type. Website developed by Grilli Type and Jack Wild.

Simplified and Traditional Chinese matching typeface designed by Arphic. Japanese matching typeface designed by Type Project. Korean matching typeface designed by Sandoll.

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