Räder

16 Weights, One Distinct Journey. Turn Left at Beauty, Right at Function.

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Hairline 160
Thin 260
Extralight 400
Light 520
Regular 630
Medium 740
Semibold 830
Bold 900
Hairline Italic 160
Thin Italic 260
Extralight Italic 400
Light Italic 520
Regular Italic 630
Medium Italic 740
Semibold Italic 830
Bold Italic 900

Räder

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Leading

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Wayfinding with soul.

Räder

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Leading

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Inspired by street signs. Refined for storytelling.

Räder

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Räder is a typeface that knows where it’s going—and looks damn good getting there. Designed to bridge the expressive power of a display font with the clarity of an editorial workhorse, it spans 16 meticulously crafted weights, from razor-sharp Hairline to bold, decorative Black. It’s versatile, but with unmistakable character.

Räder

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At first glance, Räder feels like a modern grotesk with clean, industrial bones—but take a closer look and you’ll notice something deeper. Räder draws inspiration from vintage road signage, back when wayfinding was both a public service and a craft. Before neutrality became the norm, designers infused signage with elegance and subtle detail—form serving function, but not at the expense of beauty. This is the ethos behind Räder. It reintroduces that moment in design history: where legibility met aesthetics, and typography played a key role in shaping urban identity. Its inner round counters give it the feel of something printed, tactile, almost analog—yet the overall form stays sharp and modern. That contrast makes Räder feel instantly familiar and oddly distinctive at the same time. It’s not a direct revival, but a reinterpretation—a typographic time machine with updated hardware. Whether you’re working on signage systems, editorial layouts, brand identities, or just want to add some depth to your typographic voice, Räder gives you the best of both worlds—old-world charm and present-day precision.

Räder is variable

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Glyphs View

True italic shapes

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Round A Y

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Discretionary ligarutes (sample)

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Old style figures

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Standard ligatures

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Tabular figures

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Case sensitive forms

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Wayfinding with soul.

Designed to work both as an expressive display typeface and as a readable editorial tool, Räder's range spans across 16 carefully crafted weights: from a stripped down hairline cut to the more exuberant and decorative bold.

Road signage is something of which we've learned to assume the neutrality: it's ubiquitous, simple and sends an arguably unmistakable message to the viewer. Has it always be like that, though? Vintage signage systems were in fact the result of a graphic compromise between clarity of message and beauty of appearance, as designers understood the importance of wayfinding in the urban identity: Räder is an attempt to bring the craft back to such times. On one hand immediately recognisable, on the other oddly familiar, it draws from a debut-de-siecle aesthetic to spice up the hyperpopular genre of industrial grotesques.

Räder's inner round counters give the feeling of a printed typeface, without compromising its modern look, so you can have the best of both worlds... or should we say the best of both ages?

Designer

Valerio Monopoli

Collaborators

Photographies by Markus Spiske

Styles

16 Styles

16 Styles with 1,351 Glyphs each

Version

1.00

Latest update: January 2022

Available formats

OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Language Support

Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lituanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Saami, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, (and more)