URW Grotesk
Font Family by URW++
Includes 59 Font Styles from $99
View Purchase OptionsURW Grotesk was designed exclusively for URW by Prof. Hermann Zapf in 1985. At the same time, Zapf designed URW Antiqua to go with URW Grotesk. At that time, we were working with a large German publishing house (Axel Springer) on type design solutions to replace certain of their newspaper fonts. Test pages of large German newspapers (e.g. Bildzeitung) were printed with URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua font families. For reasons not disclosed to us, the project was dropped and Springer never used URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua for that purpose.
Anyway, Zapf finished his designs and URW produced both families.
Zapf's intention for the two typefaces was to design two highly legible, open and classical fonts that could be used for any kind of typography, especially books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
However, we realized later on, that URW Grotesk is very well suited for multi media applications on screen.
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59 Fonts Included
URW Grotesk Condensed Extra Light | View All 371 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Condensed Extra Light
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Bold | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Bold
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Bold Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Bold Oblique
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Extra Light | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Extra Light
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Extra Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Extra Light Oblique
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Light | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Light
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Light Oblique
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Medium | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Medium
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Medium Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Medium Oblique
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Regular | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Regular
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URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Regular Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Narrow Regular Oblique
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URW Grotesk Extra Wide Bold | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Bold
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URW Grotesk Condensed Light | View All 395 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Condensed Light
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URW Grotesk Condensed Bold | View All 395 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Condensed Bold
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URW Grotesk Regular Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Regular Oblique
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URW Grotesk Bold Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Bold Oblique
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URW Grotesk Extra Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Light Oblique
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URW Grotesk Light Italic | View All 409 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Light Italic
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URW Grotesk Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Light Oblique
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URW Grotesk Medium Italic | View All 409 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Medium Italic
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URW Grotesk Medium Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Medium Oblique
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URW Grotesk Regular Italic | View All 410 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Regular Italic
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URW Grotesk Extra Wide Bold Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Bold Oblique
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URW Grotesk Extra Wide Extra Light | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Extra Light
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URW Grotesk Extra Wide Extra Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Extra Light Oblique
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URW Grotesk Narrow Regular Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Narrow Regular Oblique
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URW Grotesk Small Caps Light | View All 399 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Small Caps Light
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URW Grotesk Small Caps Regular | View All 399 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Small Caps Regular
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URW Grotesk Wide Bold Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Wide Bold Oblique
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URW Grotesk Wide Extra Light | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Wide Extra Light
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URW Grotesk Wide Extra Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Wide Extra Light Oblique
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URW Grotesk Wide Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Wide Light Oblique
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URW Grotesk Wide Medium Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Wide Medium Oblique
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URW Grotesk Wide Regular | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Wide Regular
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URW Grotesk Narrow Regular | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Narrow Regular
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URW Grotesk Narrow Medium Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Narrow Medium Oblique
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URW Grotesk Narrow Medium | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Narrow Medium
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URW Grotesk Extra Wide Light | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Light
from $19.95
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Light Oblique
from $19.95
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Medium | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Medium
from $19.95
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Medium Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Medium Oblique
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URW Grotesk Extra Wide Regular | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Regular
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URW Grotesk Extra Wide Regular Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Extra Wide Regular Oblique
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URW Grotesk Narrow Bold Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Narrow Bold Oblique
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URW Grotesk Narrow Extra Light | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Narrow Extra Light
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URW Grotesk Narrow Extra Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Narrow Extra Light Oblique
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URW Grotesk Narrow Light | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Narrow Light
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URW Grotesk Narrow Light Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Narrow Light Oblique
from $19.95
URW Grotesk Wide Regular Oblique | View All 366 Glyphs
URW Grotesk Wide Regular Oblique
from $19.95
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