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Staff Grotesk Font Family

Staff Grotesk is a new text-oriented take on the multi-width Staff family. Its focus is readability in small sizes and longer passages of text. Designed separately from the original Staff published in 2019, Staff Grotesk has a seemingly low-key presence, slightly more attuned to the European sans serif tradition, but is subtly dotted with reminiscences of the original quirks of Staff’s large-size letterforms. The lowercase ‘a’ still has a large bowl, the capital M has a pointed apex, the Q kept its vertically-cut tail, but all are much more bound by conventionality. Compared with the original seven subfamilies of the Staff system, Staff Grotesk features wider spacing, open counters and a smaller range of four text-oriented weights, from Light to Bold.