{"id":8154,"date":"2022-05-12T11:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typetype.org\/fr\/?p=8154"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:18:44","slug":"tt-norms-pro-a-8-year-history-of-the-font-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typetype.org\/fr\/blog\/tt-norms-pro-a-8-year-history-of-the-font-family\/","title":{"rendered":"TT Norms\u00ae Pro: a 8-year history of the font family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TT Norms\u00ae<\/sup> Pro is one of the most sought-after typefaces in the TypeType collection. More than three reissues in 8 years, first lines in MyFonts ratings<\/a>, dozens of customizations and reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TT Norms\u00ae<\/sup> Pro<\/a>, released in 2022, has 1668 characters in its font composition, 66 faces and 1 variable font changing along three axes. The TT Norms\u00ae<\/sup> Pro Mono<\/a> subfamily contains 1181 characters, 14 faces and 1 variable font.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to put into words what a valuable experience this font has been for everyone at the foundry, but we will try to tell its full story, with all its dead ends and mistakes, with the first victories and a massive redrawing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all started with an idea<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2015, TypeType could only dream of creating the most popular typeface in the world. However, it was then that we got the idea to create a new typeface, fundamentally different from everything that had been done before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would have been nice to say that we already knew then that we were creating a legend, but everything was much more prosaic. One of the studio\u2019s type designers realized that when choosing a typeface for a new project, problems constantly arose: they liked the typeface visually, but did not like the character composition or the Cyrillic version. In addition, at that time the choice of geometric sans serifs was modest, although such fonts were gaining popularity in the world and becoming a trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the prerequisite for creating their own product with a carefully crafted Cyrillic alphabet, an extensive character composition, and a universal character. We wanted to get a font that would suit different projects, look stylish and modern\u2014a geometric sans serif with classic character proportions, neutral, but indispensable for designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how the first sketches appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TT Norms<\/strong>\u00ae<\/sup>\u2014first version<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2015\u20132017. From sketches to the top of MyFonts ranking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, the studio had a completely different approach to type design, but quite many ambitions and plans. We put all our efforts into creating a geometric sans serif with a universal character, because we wanted to expand the scope of its application as much as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The idea was taken into work right away, and from the first sketches, the active development of the font, for which at that time we did not have a name, began. The file with developments was called \u00abUntitled font\u00bb. At the end of 2015\u2014beginning of 2016, several letters were drawn in Adobe Illustrator, and on March 7, 2016, the first face appeared. Each glyph was drawn in a graphics editor, and the plan was to create 7 upright faces: Thin, Light, Regular, DemiBold, Bold, Black, Extra Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simultaneously with the first developments, we began to think about the name of the future font. There were three versions proposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n