Styles
LEZEN Floor
- Floor 01
- Floor 02
- Floor 03
- Floor 04
- Floor 05
- Floor 06
- Floor 07
- Floor 08
- Floor 09
- Floor 10
- Floor 11
LEZEN City
- City 11
- City 10
- City 09
- City 08
- City 07
- City 06
- City 05
- City 04
- City 03
- City 02
- City 01
LEZEN Glow
- Glow 11
- Glow 10
- Glow 09
- Glow 08
- Glow 07
- Glow 06
- Glow 05
- Glow 04
- Glow 03
- Glow 02
- Glow 01
LEZEN Optical
- Optical 11
- Optical 10
- Optical 09
- Optical 08
- Optical 07
- Optical 06
- Optical 05
- Optical 04
- Optical 03
- Optical 02
- Optical 01
About LEZEN
The Lezen family is grounded in the work of graphic and type designer Jurriaan Schrofer (1926–1990). A contemporary of Wim Crouwel (1929–2019), the designer of New Alphabet, Schrofer regarded text as a truly malleable and sculptural material. Developed through an extensive exploration of typographic variation, Lezen stands as a direct tribute to one of Schrofer’s works, published in 1971: Wie dit leest is gek (“Whoever reads this is crazy”).
The family comprises four main stylistic sets—Floor, City, Glow, and Optical—which alter the typeface’s appearance and the sophistication of its geometric forms. Each set contains 44 styles, with over 400 glyphs per style, including numerous letter alternates. This abundant multiplicity enables almost infinite possibilities for composition and experimentation, suited to a wide range of titling scales. By playing with outlines and weights, mixing and confronting them, and applying color, it becomes possible to freely explore the broad territory between legibility and architectural complexity. Moreover, Lezen lends itself ideally to 3D translations, in the spirit of Jurriaan Schrofer’s free and multidimensional approach.
Details
DesignersGuillaume Sbalchiero
and Marie-Mam Sai Bellier
Technical InfoShow Information
Mastering / EngineeringMartin Violette
Publishing YearBAL Foundry, 2026
Co-PublishingDiorama Type Partners, 2023
Version1.0
File FormatsOTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Character SetLatin Extended
Language CoverageShow Languages
Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Onĕipŏt, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
