URW Grotesk T Extra Light
URW Grotesk T Extra Light	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Oblique
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light
URW Grotesk T Light	$19.95
URW Grotesk SC T Light
URW Grotesk SC T Light	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Oblique
URW Grotesk T Light Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Italic
URW Grotesk T Light Italic	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular
URW Grotesk T Regular	$19.95
URW Grotesk SC T Regular
URW Grotesk SC T Regular	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Oblique
URW Grotesk T Regular Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Italic
URW Grotesk T Regular Italic	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium
URW Grotesk T Medium	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Oblique
URW Grotesk T Medium Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Italic
URW Grotesk T Medium Italic	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold
URW Grotesk T Bold	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Oblique
URW Grotesk T Bold Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Italic
URW Grotesk T Bold Italic	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Condensed
URW Grotesk T Light Condensed	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Condensed
URW Grotesk T Bold Condensed	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Extra Narrow
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Extra Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Extra Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Extra Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Extra Narrow
URW Grotesk T Light Extra Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Extra Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Light Extra Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Extra Narrow
URW Grotesk T Regular Extra Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Extra Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Regular Extra Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Extra Narrow
URW Grotesk T Medium Extra Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Extra Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Medium Extra Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Extra Narrow
URW Grotesk T Bold Extra Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Extra Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Bold Extra Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Narrow
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Narrow
URW Grotesk T Light Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Light Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Narrow
URW Grotesk T Regular Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Regular Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Narrow
URW Grotesk T Medium Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Medium Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Narrow
URW Grotesk T Bold Narrow	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Narrow Oblique
URW Grotesk T Bold Narrow Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Wide
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Wide Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Wide
URW Grotesk T Light Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Light Wide Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Wide
URW Grotesk T Regular Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Regular Wide Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Wide
URW Grotesk T Medium Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Medium Wide Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Wide
URW Grotesk T Bold Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Bold Wide Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Extra Wide
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Extra Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Extra Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Extra Light Extra Wide Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Extra Wide
URW Grotesk T Light Extra Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Light Extra Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Light Extra Wide Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Extra Wide
URW Grotesk T Regular Extra Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Regular Extra Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Regular Extra Wide Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Extra Wide
URW Grotesk T Medium Extra Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Medium Extra Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Medium Extra Wide Oblique	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Extra Wide
URW Grotesk T Bold Extra Wide	$19.95
URW Grotesk T Bold Extra Wide Oblique
URW Grotesk T Bold Extra Wide Oblique	$19.95

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: March 17th, 2000
Designed by: Hermann Zapf
Contained in Category: Legible
Design owned by: URW++
MyFonts Keywords: 1990s, coarse, conservative, economic, German, informal, legible, linear sans, magazine, multimedia, neutral, sans-serif, static, sturdy, technical

URW Grotesk

URW Grotesk was designed exclusively for URW by Prof. Hermann Zapf in 1985. At the same time, Zapf designed URW Antiqua to go with URW Grotesk. At that time, we were working with a large German publishing house (Axel Springer) on type design solutions to replace certain of their newspaper fonts. Test pages of large German newspapers (e.g. Bildzeitung) were printed with URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua font families. For reasons not disclosed to us, the project was dropped and Springer never used URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua for that purpose.

Anyway, Zapf finished his designs and URW produced both families.

Zapf’s intention for the two typefaces was to design two highly legible, open and classical fonts that could be used for any kind of typography, especially books, newspapers, magazines, etc.

However, we realized later on, that URW Grotesk is very well suited for multi media applications on screen.

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