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Midsole

by Grype
Individual Styles from $16.00 USD
Complete family of 40 fonts: $250.00 USD
The Midsole Font Family was designed by Jim Lyles, Brian J. Bonislawsky and published by Grype. Midsole contains 40 styles and family package options.

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Midsole is a geometric sans serif family inspired by the bold typographic language commonly found in athletic footwear branding and late twentieth-century product logos. Many shoe companies adopted distinctive geometric lettering for their wordmarks, combining sturdy construction with approachable curves and modern industrial styling. Midsole takes inspiration from that tradition and expands it into a full contemporary type family built for modern design systems. The design captures the confident simplicity of classic sneaker branding while evolving the concept beyond its origins. Uniform stroke construction, balanced curves, and strong geometric structure give Midsole a recognizable personality that feels both retro and modern. The result is a versatile display family suited for branding, editorial layouts, advertising, sports graphics, packaging, and technology-driven visual identities. Midsole is organized as a large family with multiple widths and weights, allowing designers to move easily between compact headlines and broader typographic compositions while maintaining a consistent design voice. Stylistic alternates include unicase-inspired characters that echo the look of classic sneaker logotypes while still supporting a full modern character set. Each font contains approximately 489 glyphs covering uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuation, symbols, and extended multilingual Latin language support. With its athletic heritage and geometric clarity, Midsole provides a flexible typographic foundation for designers seeking a strong modern sans with subtle retro influence.

Designers: Jim Lyles, Brian J. Bonislawsky

Publisher: Grype

Foundry: Grype

Design Owner: Grype

MyFonts debut: Jan 10, 2022

Midsole

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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