Ballinger Standard







Ballinger began life as a proprietary single-weight face called baasic, designed for Dublin-based design office aad. baasic was intended as a plain, hardworking grotesque: a simple tool for clear communication. We’ve developed it into a fully-featured eight-weight workhorse family with matching italics, plus condensed and monospaced companions. Sources include early 20th century jobbing sanses like Morris Benton’s News Gothic and Candia, a 70s-era typewriter face that Josef Müller-Brockmann designed for Olivetti, which had unusually deep junctures that added energy to letters like m and n. Ballinger has large counters and a generous x-height. Letters like a, e, and s open out gradually as they move from Thin to Black to maintain ample apertures, even in the darkest weights. Semi-oldstyle figures are available, as are case-sensitive punctuation and delimiters. Italics incorporate subtle ogee curves to lend warmth and energy to the page or screen. Ballinger includes Greek, Cyrillic, and support for over 150 Latin-based languages, including Vietnamese. Winner of an ICAD Gold Bell.

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All desktop, web, and app licences are perpetual. All payments are one-time only, with no recurring fees. Prices exclude tax.

Free trial fonts are available.

For broadcast, eBook, large enterprise, or student licenses, or to upgrade past orders, please contact us.

We can produce customized versions of this typeface, as well as language extensions.

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