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Ulm Grotesk

Ulm Grotesk

by Indian Type Foundry
Licenses from $175.00
Complete family of 5 fonts: $175.00
Ulm Grotesk Font Family was designed by Ilya Naumoff and published by Indian Type Foundry. Ulm Grotesk contains 5 styles and family package options.

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Ulm Grotesk Family

5 fonts

Best Value!

  • Ulm Grotesk Light Ulm Grotesk Light

  • Ulm Grotesk Ulm Grotesk

  • Ulm Grotesk Medium Ulm Grotesk Medium

  • Ulm Grotesk Bold Ulm Grotesk Bold

  • Ulm Grotesk Extrabold Ulm Grotesk Extrabold

Per style:

$35.00

Pack of 5 styles:

$175.00

About Ulm Grotesk Font Family


Ulm Grotesk is a family of geometric-style fonts for use at display sizes. Its design is so simplified that it feels quite futuristic. There are five weights on offer, ranging from Light to Extra Bold. The characters have been drawn with optically-monolinear strokes. The capital letters contain quite a lot of character; some of them are markant, too. The ‘J’, for instance, is very wide. The fonts’ default ‘Q’ separates the ‘O’ stroke from the tail visibly; a more traditional-looking ‘Q’ is available as an alternate. The forms of the capital ‘A’, ‘V’, ‘W’, and ‘Y’ are reminiscent of the ‘worm logo’ that was used by NASA in the 1970s and ’80s. The lowercase ‘m’, ‘n’, ‘r’, and ‘u’ are spurless. The high-modernist geometric style of the ‘a’, ‘b’, and ‘c’ call Paul Rand’s iconic ABC logo to mind. The tail of the ‘j’ is a simple, vertical stroke. The ‘g’ and the ‘y’ each have wide, sweeping tails – although, there is an alternate ‘y’ available, with a straight-tailed descender. The fonts’ numerals are the same height as the capital letters. Ulm Grotesk is named after the German city of Ulm. In the 1950’s and ’60s, a famous West German design school operated there. The Ulm School of Design was hailed as a successor to the Bauhaus, and it set important impulses for international graphic and product design. These Ulm aftershocks were felt for the next several decades. The fonts are the work of the Paris-based type designer Ilya Naumoff.

Designers: Ilya Naumoff

Publisher: Indian Type Foundry

Foundry: Indian Type Foundry

Design Owner: Indian Type Foundry

MyFonts debut: Sep 20, 2018

Ulm Grotesk

About Indian Type Foundry

Founded in 2009, the Indian Type Foundry (ITF) designs and distributes fine-quality, multilingual fonts for both the Indian and global market. ITF specialises in creating and developing both custom and retail fonts. ITF has designed and licensed fonts to some of the world’s most iconic brands including Apple, Google, Samsung, Sony, Amazon and Hyundai to name just a few. Its retail library offers fonts for text and display use, in visual styles ranging from traditional to experimental. ITF currently offers over 200 retail font families across 20 writing systems. ITF’s Kohinoor font family is on permanent display at London’s Design Museum as part of the “Designer Maker User” exhibition, which recognises this work as a historic milestone in the field of graphic design.

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