Project background

Grime Grotesk is a typeface named after a type of electronic music that originated in London. Over the years, the genre has developed a look and feel through photography, but has yet to establish a typographic identity. Luke wants to solve that: he’d like to offer Grime Grotesk’s two weights (bold and regular), along with style guidelines, for free to grime musicians.

What was working?

Luke replaced select arcs in the characters’ rounded counters with straight lines, satisfying a personal aesthetic that tends toward the modern.

What was challenging?

Luke wanted to know if, when set in sentences, the letters meshed in terms of overall rhythm and consistency of weight. He also sought feedback re: character width — did the letters seem too narrow when typeset together?