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Binder

by Grype
Individual Styles from $16.00 USD
Complete family of 8 fonts: $80.00 USD
The Binder Font Family was designed by Jim Lyles, Brian J. Bonislawsky and published by Grype. Binder contains 8 styles and family package options.

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Binder is a revival and expansion of the condensed type style originally designed by Joseph Binder and released by D. Stempel AG in 1959. The original design appeared as a single weight display typeface, later adapted into limited film type variations, but it never developed into a complete typographic family capable of supporting broader design applications. Over time the distinctive narrow proportions of the Binder style gained renewed attention, particularly after appearing on the famous poster for The Silence of the Lambs, where its tall condensed structure created a striking cinematic title treatment. Despite this recognition, the design itself remained largely unexplored as a full family system. This modern expansion restores and evolves the original design, transforming it into a contemporary type family with a broader range of weights and stylistic flexibility. The family includes four weights, Thin, Light, Regular, and Bold, each paired with a matching oblique style, allowing designers to build strong typographic hierarchy while maintaining the distinctive condensed personality of the original typeface. Stylistic alternates include alternate lowercase forms and unicase-style capitals inspired by the historical source material. Each font includes approximately 538 glyphs covering uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuation, symbols, and extended multilingual Latin language support. With its tall condensed structure and cinematic character, Binder works especially well in editorial design, posters, branding, film graphics, packaging, and dramatic headline typography.

Designers: Jim Lyles, Brian J. Bonislawsky

Publisher: Grype

Foundry: Grype

Original Foundry: Grype

Design Owner: Grype

MyFonts debut: Apr 29, 2020

Binder

About Grype

Grype began as a grunge type outfit for a short-lived time under the independent designer Charles Leroux. It was acquired by Astigmatic (AOETI) in 2016 and has since transitioned under the team of Brian J. Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles into a type foundry that produces font families inspired by corporate, band, and other logotypes and branding. And we still have retained some of the early pepperings of grunge typography from the library to boot.Grype expands on branding logotypes and makes them into full fledged type identity kits.

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