Eiffel collection
family overview
- Eiffel Light
- Eiffel Light Italic
- Eiffel Regular
- Eiffel Italic
- Eiffel Medium
- Eiffel Medium Italic
- Eiffel Bold
- Eiffel Bold Italic
- Eiffel Level Air
- Eiffel Level 03
- Eiffel Level 02
- Eiffel Level 01
- Eiffel Level -01
- Eiffel Level -02
typeface
Eiffel Regular
Eiffel Regular
information
about Eiffel
The trigger for the development of this font was a design pitch for a new signage project for the Eiffel Tower in Paris. André Baldinger was invited by Intégral Ruedi Baur to create and contribute the typeface. It was required to serve two purposes: a large display variant for signs and a text variant for printed matter. During the research, it quickly became obvious that it was less the shape of the tower and more its structural elements that offered the most interesting starting point for the design. The characteristics of the structure are the square, the double square and a series of struts at six defined angles. This geometric form language was the starting point for the construction and design process. There were hardly any models which could have served as orientation. You have less leeway with a defined design principle than in free drawing. It was a tricky task with formal, aesthetic and technical problems to be solved, mainly for display variants. The Eiffel Level Air weight is part of the handful of typefaces worldwide with a stroke thickness of as little as 1 unit–light as air!
OpenType features include various Stylistic Sets: ss01 Negative Circled Numbers, ss02 Circled Numbers, ss03 Negative Framed Numbers, ss04 Framed Numbers.
credits
André Baldinger,
assisted by
Fanny Hamelin
technical
- designed in 2009
- released in 2022
- version 2.0
- available in 8 styles
- roman 642 glyphs
- italic 642 glyphs
supported languages
Eiffel in use
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