GD Bauer – Craft & Feeling
GD Bauer is a display serif rooted in a 19th century European typeface tradition, with pointed serifs and harmonized proportions. The stroke contrast is even, which keeps it feeling contemporary despite the historical references. Ink traps add depth at display sizes. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Assured and elegant, but with real character.
Few typefaces with this much personality work at body size. GD Bauer does, with a text version built to carry its character all the way down.
Named after John Bauer (1882–1918), the Swedish illustrator whose forests, trolls and silent princesses still carry the charge of something ancient and half-seen. A fitting name for a typeface built on the same conviction: that craft and feeling are never opposites.
Year
2026
Designer(s)
Marcus Gärde,
Anders Wikström
Paola Alonso Chapel
Style
Serif
Weights
Display Light
Display Regular
Display Medium
Display Semibold
Display Bold
Display Black
Text Regular
Text Medium
Text Semibold
Text Bold
Features
Open Type Alternates
Proportional Numbers
Tabular Numbers
Languages
200+
UPM
2048
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
A pointed serif with roots in 19th century Europe, where the same typeface travelled from Paris to Berlin and back again under different names. Sharp where it counts, rounded where it breathes. Ink traps catch the light at display sizes, and the text version carries the same character all the way down. Precise and handcrafted, assured and elegant. The kind of typeface that knows exactly what it is, and has known for a long time.
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