Proto
Styles
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk ExtraLight
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk ExtraLight Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk Light
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk Light Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk SemiLight
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk SemiLight Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk Regular
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk Italic
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk Bold
Fast driving by Jack, with the zippy Mazda, quickly excels on the rugged course.
Buy from €80Proto Grotesk Bold Italic
Proto In Use
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Information
Design
Jean-Baptiste Levée
Release Date
2014-07-15Team
Ilya Ruderman
Yury Ostromentsky
Emilios Theofanous
Yoann Minet
Hugues Gentile
Awards & distinctions
Type Directors Club New York Certificate of excellence 2015
Type Directors Club Tokyo Selection 2015
Hiii Typography Merit Award 优异奖 2014
Typecache best of 2014
Typo365 best of 2014
Typographica's favourite of 2014
Typefacts Best of 2014
Fontwerk Die besten Schriften 2014
About this font
Over the last hundred years or so, utilitarian typefaces have shed most of their quirks and eccentricities on the way to becoming more versatile and universal. That makes some sense, but there’s no reason type can’t be both steadfast and peculiar. Drawing from an early German sans serif used for catalog text, Proto Grotesk revives an era when clunkiness was a virtue. Its pedigree is varied, vacillating between Egyptian and Modern, round and edged, even sans and slab. Despite these contradictions, its posture is nothing less than sturdy and forthright. Proto Grotesk is strange but steady.
Formats
Static (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2)About the designers
Jean-Baptiste Levée is a type designer with a strong focus on corporate and bespoke typefaces.
Jean-Baptiste Levée
CEO, founder
Jean-Baptiste Levée (1981) has designed over a hundred typefaces for industry, moving pictures, fashion and media. He is the founder of the independent foundry Production Type.
