From the single-style, monolingual fonts of the metal-type era to the complex, sprawling, multi-script families of the digital present, typography and type design have evolved, not only to embrace developments in print and communication technology, but also to support a world where unity and diversity must meet if we are to survive.

Greta Sans was been planned from the outset as a system of interrelated styles. From the very beginning, work proceeded on multiple styles simultaneously. This text is a reflection on the process of designing large typeface systems.

Typotheque also offers a free iPad app. The Elementar App is an innovative, intuitive way to select parametric bitmap fonts just by swiping to browse through the thousands of combinations of heights, weights and styles.

Elementar is a parametric font system designed to bring more typographic flexibility to digital screens. It consists of thousands of individual fonts in a continuum of different styles, sizes, weights and widths.

Elementar is a parametric bitmap font system designed to bring more typographic flexibility to digital screens. The Elementar system can produce a virtually unlimited number of fonts along different variation axes (size, weight, width, style, element size & shape)