Bricolage Grotesque

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Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Bricolage Grotesque ExtraLight
• Light 300Bricolage Grotesque Light
• Regular 400Bricolage Grotesque Regular
• Medium 500Bricolage Grotesque Medium
• SemiBold 600Bricolage Grotesque SemiBold
• Bold 700Bricolage Grotesque Bold
• ExtraBold 800Bricolage Grotesque ExtraBold

Bricolage Grotesque is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Bricolage Grotesque

Bricolage Grotesque is a sans serif family that mixes French and British grotesque sources into one design; its starting point was a fork of Mayenne Sans, a one-weight open-source typeface by Jérémy Landes. In the specimen, set heavy at a large optical size, the letters are compact with tight apertures, and the Q has a tail that forms a bar under the bowl. The official notes explain that the small optical sizes turn more neutral and use exaggerated ink traps. It is a variable font with three axes: optical size from 12 to 96, weight from 200 to 800 and width from 75 to 100. Seven named weights run from ExtraLight to ExtraBold, and there is no italic. The font has 597 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Mathieu Triay designed it at Atelier Triay, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Bricolage Grotesque works

Display headlines with character

High optical size values bring out the quirks of the design, such as the barred Q, in large titles.

Brand identities

Three axes in one file let a brand set a narrow heavy logotype and a lighter, wider tagline from the same font.

Titles in tight spaces

The width axis condenses the letters down to 75 for long words on posters and mobile headers.

Small interface text

At optical sizes near 12 the forms become more neutral and gain ink traps, which were added for small text.

Editorial covers and section openers

ExtraBold 800 at a large optical size gives a page a strong typographic image without illustration.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Bricolage Grotesque

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Bricolage Grotesque on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Bricolage Grotesque";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BricolageGrotesque-VariableFont_opsz%2Cwdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Bricolage Grotesque", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Bricolage Grotesque with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bricolage+Grotesque:wght@200..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One file, three axes

Optical size (12 to 96), weight (200 to 800) and width (75 to 100) are all in a single variable font.

No italics

Bricolage Grotesque has upright styles only.

Width only goes narrower

The width axis runs from 75 to 100; there is no expanded setting above the normal width.

FAQs

Collections with Bricolage Grotesque

• Grotesque sans-serif fonts

  Grotesque and neo-grotesque sans-serif families: plain, sturdy, slightly irregular workhorses for branding, editorial design and interfaces.

• Variable fonts with an optical size axis

  Variable families that redraw themselves for the size they are set at: sturdier and looser when small, finer and tighter when large.

• Fonts that support Vietnamese

  Open-license families that include the stacked diacritics Vietnamese needs, among them several designed in or for Vietnam.

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