“Initially, Tablet Gothic was meant to be a sans serif companion to our Abril type collection. We were not looking to do a sans serif version of Abril, but rather a completely new font family that would work gracefully beside Abril. The DNA for this font was inspired by a numeral 2 we photographed in an early twentieth-century type specimen we found in Poland. Out of that single character, we developed our largest type family: 84 fonts, six series of condensation and seven weights in each series, plus obliques. Tablet Gothic is engineered as a titling type family, meant to help designers working on publications that require output in print and a variety of digital platforms at the same time. Our aim was to make a grotesque sans serif that looks to the future of publishing with a clear understanding of its history and with reminiscences of type developments in nineteenth-century Britain and Germany.”