Staniol

Staniol

Staniol is the first typeface we are releasing for retail. Staniol is the German word for tin foil, a malleable material that can be shaped into precise object with sharp edges. The name captures something of the typeface itself: the openness and legibility of the humanist structure are shaped through the control and mathematical precision of geometric drawing. The tension between these two contrasting concepts, together with the sharp vertical terminals, gives Staniol its character. Think of Adrian Frutiger’s Frutiger as Paul Renner might have drawn it.

Extralight
Staniol Light
Light
Staniol Regular
Regular

Staniol comes in seven weights, from Extralight to Extrabold. Each style has just under 800 glyphs and supports 221 Latin-script languages. Only Skolt Sámi and Vietnamese are missing (for now). We paid close attention to character coverage: every letter, diacritic and punctuation mark was drawn with the same care. Italics in matching weights are in production and scheduled for completion by the end of 2026.

Abbreviations of two chemical elements written in Staniol Extralight
Abbreviations of two chemical elements written in Staniol Light
Abbreviations of two chemical elements written in Staniol Regular
Abbreviations of two chemical elements written in Staniol Medium
Abbreviations of two chemical elements written in Staniol Semibold
Abbreviations of two chemical elements written in Staniol Bold
Abbreviations of two chemical elements written in Staniol Extrabold
Abbreviations of two pseudo-chemical elements written in Staniol Regular Italic
Several names of elements listed in all seven weights of Staniol
Several names of elements listed in all seven weights of Staniol
Type specimen set in: Staniol-Extralight
Type specimen set in: Staniol-Light
Type specimen set in: Staniol-Regular
Type specimen set in: Staniol-Medium
Type specimen set in: Staniol-Semibold
Type specimen set in: Staniol-Bold
Type specimen set in: Staniol-Extrabold

Staniol is designed for editorial use and remains legible at small sizes, even in Extrabold. To keep the typeface contemporary, we left out oldstyle figures, but drew the default figures slightly shorter than the cap height, giving running text an even colour. The case feature adapts punctuation for all-capital settings and also switches the figures to full cap height. Tabular figures also use full cap height. Further features include automatic fractions, circled figures, keyboard-accessible arrows, as well as a stylistic set that replaces the standard letter forms with schoolbook shapes.


Detail of Staniol: uppercase and lowercase figures
Detail of Staniol: case sensitive parenthesis and hyphen
Detail of Staniol: inferior and superior numbers
Detail of Staniol: monospace figures and slash vs. automatic fractions
Detail of Staniol: contexutal alternates transforming to white circled figures
Detail of Staniol: contexutal alternates transforming to black circled figures
Detail of Staniol: stylistic set schoolbook style
Detail of Staniol: contexutal alternates transforming to arrow

Uppercase Latin

  • A
  • Á
  • Ă
  • Ǎ
  • Â
  • Ä
  • Ạ
  • À
  • Ā
  • Ą
  • Å
  • Ã
  • Æ
  • Ǽ
  • B
  • C
  • Ć
  • Č
  • Ç
  • Ĉ
  • Ċ
  • D
  • Ð
  • Ď
  • Đ
  • E
  • É
  • Ĕ
  • Ě
  • Ê
  • Ë
  • Ė
  • Ẹ
  • È
  • Ē
  • Ę
  • Ẽ
  • Ə
  • F
  • G
  • Ğ
  • Ǧ
  • Ĝ
  • Ģ
  • Ġ
  • Ḡ
  • H
  • Ħ
  • Ĥ
  • I
  • Í
  • Ĭ
  • Î
  • Ï
  • İ
  • Ị
  • Ì
  • Ī
  • Į
  • Ĩ
  • IJ
  • J
  • Ĵ
  • K
  • Ķ
  • L
  • Ĺ
  • Ľ
  • Ļ
  • Ŀ
  • Ł
  • M
  • N
  • Ń
  • Ň
  • Ņ
  • Ɲ
  • Ñ
  • Ŋ
  • O
  • Ó
  • Ŏ
  • Ô
  • Ö
  • Ọ
  • Ò
  • Ő
  • Ō
  • Ǫ
  • Ø
  • Ǿ
  • Õ
  • Œ
  • P
  • Þ
  • Q
  • R
  • Ŕ
  • Ř
  • Ŗ
  • S
  • Ś
  • Ꞌ
  • Š
  • Ş
  • Ŝ
  • Ș
  • ẞ
  • T
  • Ŧ
  • Ť
  • Ţ
  • Ț
  • U
  • Ú
  • Ŭ
  • Û
  • Ü
  • Ụ
  • Ù
  • Ű
  • Ū
  • Ų
  • Ů
  • Ũ
  • V
  • W
  • Ẃ
  • Ŵ
  • Ẅ
  • Ẁ
  • X
  • Y
  • Ý
  • Ŷ
  • Ÿ
  • Ỳ
  • Ȳ
  • Ỹ
  • Z
  • Ź
  • Ž
  • Ż

Lowercase Latin

  • a
  • á
  • ă
  • ǎ
  • â
  • ä
  • ạ
  • à
  • ā
  • ą
  • å
  • ã
  • æ
  • ǽ
  • b
  • c
  • ć
  • č
  • ç
  • ĉ
  • ċ
  • d
  • ð
  • ď
  • đ
  • e
  • é
  • ĕ
  • ě
  • ê
  • ë
  • ė
  • ẹ
  • è
  • ē
  • ę
  • ẽ
  • ə
  • f
  • g
  • ğ
  • ǧ
  • ĝ
  • ģ
  • ġ
  • ḡ
  • h
  • ħ
  • ĥ
  • i
  • ı
  • í
  • ĭ
  • î
  • ï
  • ị
  • ì
  • ī
  • į
  • ĩ
  • ij
  • j
  • ȷ
  • ĵ
  • k
  • ķ
  • ĸ
  • l
  • ĺ
  • ľ
  • ļ
  • ŀ
  • ł
  • m
  • n
  • ń
  • ʼn
  • ň
  • ņ
  • ɲ
  • ñ
  • ŋ
  • o
  • ó
  • ŏ
  • ô
  • ö
  • ọ
  • ò
  • ő
  • ō
  • ǫ
  • ø
  • ǿ
  • õ
  • œ
  • p
  • þ
  • q
  • r
  • ŕ
  • ř
  • ŗ
  • s
  • ś
  • ꞌ
  • š
  • ş
  • ŝ
  • ș
  • ß
  • t
  • ŧ
  • ť
  • ţ
  • ț
  • u
  • ú
  • ŭ
  • û
  • ü
  • ụ
  • ù
  • ű
  • ū
  • ų
  • ů
  • ũ
  • v
  • w
  • ẃ
  • ŵ
  • ẅ
  • ẁ
  • x
  • y
  • ý
  • ŷ
  • ÿ
  • ỳ
  • ȳ
  • ỹ
  • z
  • ź
  • ž
  • ż

Uppercase (Greek)

  • Α
  • Β
  • Γ
  • Δ
  • Μ
  • Π
  • Σ
  • Ω

Lowercase (Greek)

  • α
  • β
  • γ
  • δ
  • μ
  • π
  • σ
  • ω

Ligatures

  • ff
  • fi
  • fl

Alternates

Case Sensitive

Figures

  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • ⓿
  • ❶
  • ❷
  • ❸
  • ❹
  • ❺
  • ❻
  • ❼
  • ❽
  • ❾
  • ⓪
  • ①
  • ②
  • ③
  • ④
  • ⑤
  • ⑥
  • ⑦
  • ⑧
  • ⑨

Tabular

Fractions

  • ⁄
  • ⅟
  • ½
  • ⅓
  • ⅔
  • ¼
  • ¾
  • ⅕
  • ⅖
  • ⅗
  • ⅘
  • ⅙
  • ⅚
  • ⅛
  • ⅜
  • ⅝
  • ⅞

Small Numbers

  • ₀
  • ₁
  • ₂
  • ₃
  • ₄
  • ₅
  • ₆
  • ₇
  • ₈
  • ₉
  • ⁰
  • ¹
  • ²
  • ³
  • ⁴
  • ⁵
  • ⁶
  • ⁷
  • ⁸
  • ⁹

Ordinals

  • ª
  • º

Currency

  • ฿
  • ₿
  • ₵
  • ¢
  • ¤
  • $
  • €
  • ƒ
  • ₴
  • ₦
  • ₽
  • ₹
  • ₪
  • £
  • ₸
  • ₮
  • ₺
  • ₩
  • ¥

Math

  • ∞
  • ∅
  • ∫
  • Ω
  • ∆
  • ∏
  • ∑
  • √
  • ∂
  • µ
  • %
  • ‰
  • ∗
  • +
  • −
  • ×
  • ÷
  • =
  • ≠
  • >
  • <
  • ≥
  • ≤
  • ±
  • ≈
  • ¬
  • ~
  • ^

Arrows

  • ↑
  • ↗
  • →
  • ↘
  • ↓
  • ↙
  • ←
  • ↖
  • ↔
  • ↕
  • ↤
  • ↥
  • ↦
  • ↧
  • ⇤
  • ⇥
  • ↰
  • ↱
  • ↲
  • ↳
  • ↺
  • ⟲
  • ↻
  • ⟳
  • ⟵
  • ⟶
  • ⟷
  • ⤓
  • ⤒

Shapes

  • ●
  • ○
  • ◐
  • ◑
  • ◒
  • ◓
  • ◌
  • ◆
  • ◊
  • ★
  • ☆
  • ♡
  • ♥
  • ■
  • □
  • ▲
  • ▶
  • ▼
  • ◀
  • △
  • ▷
  • ▽
  • ◁

Punctuation

  • .
  • ,
  • :
  • ;
  • …
  • !
  • ¡
  • ?
  • ¿
  • ·
  • •
  • *
  • ⁂
  • ⁎
  • #
  • /
  • \
  • ⁑
  • *
  • -
  • ­
  • –
  • —
  • _
  • (
  • )
  • {
  • }
  • [
  • ]
  • ‚
  • „
  • “
  • ”
  • ‘
  • ’
  • «
  • »
  • ‹
  • ›
  • "
  • '

Symbols

  • ➖
  • ➕
  • ❌
  • ☑
  • ☒
  • ☰
  • ♦
  • @
  • &
  • §
  • ©
  • ®
  • ™
  • °
  • ⌀
  • |
  • ¦
  • †
  • ‡
  • ℮
  • №
  • Ⓟ

Marks

  • ¨
  • ˙
  • `
  • ´
  • ˝
  • ˆ
  • ˇ
  • ˘
  • ˚
  • ˜
  • ¯
  • ¸
  • ˛

Staniol began in 2014 as an experiment in drawing a humanist skeleton geometrically. In 2015, the experiment resulted in an initial version of the typeface, which was used over ten years for Portikus, an exhibition space in Frankfurt am Main. Ronnie Fueglister designed it for the organisation’s corporate identity, on commission from Fabian Schöneich, curator at Portikus at the time. Since then, the concept has been refined and the proportions optimised. In 2025, Yousef Ghedjati joined the project and made a major contribution to this work: he expanded the language support and advanced the italics. Many people have tested Staniol over the years, helping us bring the typeface to completion. Thank you.