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 Mundo in 1991: Metro, Formata, Gill and Syntax,” recalls Crossgrove. “I used these designs – and surprisingly, Futura – as models for proportion, weight, flow, spacing, and rhythm in my design.”
Spanning seven weights and a suite of cursive italics, Mundo Sans 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 Mundo 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 Mundo Sans its status as a Super Family.