Type designer Carl Crossgrove worked on-and-off for 10 years developing the Mundo Sans™ typeface family. “There were several humanist sans typefaces that I admired when I began work on the Mundo font in 1991: the Metro font, the Formata font, the Gill font and the Syntax font,” recalls Crossgrove. “I used these designs – and surprisingly, the Futura font– as models for proportion, weight, flow, spacing, and rhythm in my design.”
Spanning seven weights and a suite of cursive italics, the Mundo Sans typeface serves a wide variety of purposes for designers. The clean and distinctive design of the heavier weights is ideal for display use, while the medium and lighter weights maintain those same characteristics as highly legible text fonts. Mundo italics are true cursive designs with fluid strokes and obvious calligraphic overtones. The flick of the down-stroke in the ‘a,’ the descending stroke of the ‘f’ and graceful curve of the baseline of the ‘z’ add grace to the design and distinguish it from more traditional sloped-roman italics.
Crossgrove says that the Mundo font isn’t meant to be revolutionary, yet it has a quiet distinction that separates it from other humanistic sans. This depth of possibilities is what gives the Mundo Sans font its status as a Super Family.