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Folio®

by Bitstream
Individual Styles from $29.99 USD
Complete family of 7 fonts: $163.99 USD
The Folio Font Family was designed by Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Walter Baum and published by Bitstream. Folio contains 7 styles and family package options.

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About the family


The Folio family was released mid-century, as fonts of hand-set metal type, by the Bauer Type Foundry. Drawn as a competitor to Helvetica® and Univers®, Folio is more of an homage to classic late 19th century sans serif styles like Akzidenz Grotesk® and Venus. If you’re looking for a grotesque sans with more of a hand-hewn affability, Folio is the design to consider.

Folio® can also be a go-to family for sustainable packaging, beauty, and lifestyle brands committed to environmental stewardship. Its simple letter shapes lend clarity to products like small-batch skincare refill stations, carbon-neutral product lines, and FSC-certified labels.

In the hands of those building brands with mindfulness and precision, Folio bridges typographic tradition: delivering a distinctive vibe and trusted legibility. Whether packaging cosmetics with refillable inner sleeves or labeling detox elixirs in post-consumer cardboard, Folio combines high-performance form with an environmentally friendly ambiance.

Designers: Konrad Friedrich Bauer, Walter Baum

Publisher: Bitstream

Foundry: Bitstream

Original Foundry: Bauersche Giesserei

Design Owner: Bitstream

MyFonts debut: Jan 1, 2000

Folio® is a registered Trademark of Bauer Types S.L. and used under license.

About Bitstream

Bitstream is known among type enthusiasts and professionals alike as being one of the companies that lead the way towards the democratization of type. For centuries, the type world had been the exclusive domain of skilled typographers who worked large, cumbersome presses. With the birth of digital type though, came a revolution in the industry that enabled Bitstream, one of the first digital type foundries, to help grow the desktop publishing industry. The company’s founders shared a vision in which desktop publishing and digital type would open up doors and allow for the access of previously exclusive typefaces to a broader public audience. Eventually, this idea of opening up the type market led to the development of fonts like Amerigo and New Lincoln Gothic; designs that played huge roles in the launching, and eventual success, of desktop publishing. With best-selling typefaces like Futura in its line up, this library made an enormous impact on the type industry and helped to form it into what it is today.

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