Commune Nuit Debout

A condensend & curveless sans serfi by Sébastien Marchal. Commune is a typeface family whose design and construction were inspired by the wood display characters of nineteenth century posters. It was developed during a postgraduate degree in type design at ESAD Amiens in 2008. It includes 240 fonts of various width, weight and designs, but all based on the same structure; it’s (almost) voluntarily drawn without any optical correction. The name "Commune" refers to the common, banal, raw aspect of its structure, but also to the Paris Commune (1871), a short but emblematic revolutionary episode during which laws and decrees were put up during their development on the walls of Paris, ensuring daily communication to the citizens (during the 2 months of the insurrection 398 posters were composed at the Imprimerie Nationale).