Mint Grotesk

Our playful workhorse typeface

Typetester

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog

Melun

Mint Grotesk Thin

Mint Grotesk Light

Mint Grotesk Regular

Mint Grotesk Medium

Mint Grotesk Bold

Mint Grotesk Black

Mint Grotesk Heavy

Mint Grotesk Thin Italic

Mint Grotesk Light Italic

Mint Grotesk Italic

Mint Grotesk Medium Italic

Mint Grotesk Bold Italic

Mint Grotesk Black Italic

Mint Grotesk Heavy Italic

Bold 150 px

DIN A4
297x210 mm

Light 150 px

Heidelberg®

Black Italic 150 px

Gallimard
Hachette
Flammarion
& Fayard

Regular 100 px

SMB Printing Co.™
Established in 1879
London → UK

Heavy 350 px

ISBN

Bold 60 px

◎ EMBOSSED
COVER

Light 60 px

▷ SILKSCREEN
PRINT

Bold 100 px

Penguin Books
All rights reserved
©1936

Light Italic 100 px

“There is no friend as
loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway

Black 100 px

SADDLE STITCH
BINDING
WORKSHOP ↘

Bold 45 px

Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier.

Medium 18 px

Lithography was initially created to be an inexpensive method of reproducing artwork.This printing process was limited to use on flat, porous surfaces because the printing plates were produced from limestone. In fact the word "lithograph", which comes from Greek, means "an image from stone" or "written in stone". The first rotary offset lithographic printing press was created in England and patented in 1875 by Robert Barclay. This development combined mid-19th century transfer printing technologies and Richard March Hoe's 1843 rotary printing press, a press that used a metal cylinder instead of a flat stone.

Regular 18 px

As the 19th century closed and photography became popular, many lithographic firms went out of business. Photoengraving, a process that used halftone technology instead of illustration, became the primary aesthetic of the era. Many printers, including Ira Washington Rubel of New Jersey, were using the low-cost lithograph process to produce copies of photographs and books. Rubel discovered in 1901 that printing from the rubber roller, instead of the metal, made the printed page clearer and sharper. After further refinement, the Potter Press printing Company in New York produced a press in 1903. By 1907 the Rubel offset press was in use in San Francisco.

Light 18 px

One of the important functions in the printing process is prepress production. This stage makes sure that all files are correctly processed in preparation for printing. This includes converting to the proper CMYK color model, finalizing the files, and creating plates for each color of the job to be run on the press. Offset lithography is one of the most common ways of creating printed materials. A few of its common applications include: newspapers, magazines, brochures, stationery, and books. Compared to other printing methods, offset printing is best suited for economically producing large volumes of high quality prints in a manner that requires little maintenance.

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Features

Stylistic set 1

Stylistic set 2

Stylistic set 3

Stylistic set 4

Uppercase substitution

Tabular figures

Superior / Inferior

Numerator / Denominator

Arrows and pictograms

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Built like a workhorse yet playful like a kitten, Mint is a grotesk typeface with an eccentric personality. Mint Grotesk is a 16 weights, sturdy, no-nonsense sans-serif with some 19th century quirkiness. While you can use Mint Grotesk for smaller and longer text it also packs a punch at larger sizes.

Mint Grotesk Display is the showy and more expressive cousin of Mint Grotesk.

Design

Sébastien Sanfilippo

Release

2023

Set

550 glyphs

Languages support

Afrikaans

Albanian

Basque

Bemba

Cape Verdean