A type face lighter than air, if it is possible to express something like this by typographic means. But the name does not make a difference. This mosquito-like Grotesk appropriately complements the jobbing steel-engraver’s scripts Splendid and Excelsior, and is, therefore, suitable for designing letterheads and graphic materials for personal representation. Medium and Black weights have been added recently to improve the range of application of this type face. Ideal font for captions, footnotes and headlines, it appears legible from 3 point size. More…

The first version was designed in 1998 and released as capitals only. Originally inspired by shapes of famous Zeppelin airships. In summer 2005 I added lower cases, “narrowed” styles, and cyrillics to -31 -35 family. In quest for most impersonal typeface without any emotions, you can find Frankin, Trade, Akzidenz, DIN, Folio and their clones. Zeppelin shares much of those inspiration sources and its consistent monolienar drawing is nearly naive, with no trace of expression. That’s common to most of universal typefaces with a very broad field of application.

Zeppelin type family is very good in magazines, posters, advertising, information systems inside/outside buildings, in traffic, being extremely legible in smallest point sizes or from longest distance.