A clear, calm environment is the best place to test out fonts. That’s why Swiss foundry Grilli Type’s new site removes any visual distractions, letting visitors take their typefaces for a spin. “Grilli Type always strives for a strongly grid- and type-oriented website design,” says Grilli Type’s cofounder Thierry Blancpain. “As we are showing typefaces, they have to stand out from the website itself and be clearly visible.” The foundry’s live type tester shows OpenType features for each family; for example, GT Cinetype’s page enables visitors to activate old-style numerals, and they can select an alternate G and 1 on GT America’s page. For the site, developers from Zürich-based digital agency Viable Labs assisted Grilli Type with the October CMS and Laravel framework, and the site’s front-end is built in HTML5, CSS and Angular.js.