Breuer Sans

Typography
Spring 2021 – 8 weeks
Design with Ashten Alexander,
Sakura Chino, Vera Drapers

Breuer Sans is a modular typeface manifesting the boldness of Brutalist architecture. Inspired by a concrete-cast waterfront sign found in Seattle and named after the great architect Marcel Breuer. Breuer Sans is a three-weight typeface carefully crafted to highlight the large, monolithic, and rigid geometric style that emerged in the 1950s while maintaining the many unique features of the original concrete-cast sign.

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