In the golden age of digital design, certain typefaces seem to appear everywhere at once. First, it was Gotham (clean, geometric, American). Then Avenir Next (friendly, humanist, ubiquitous). But for the past few years, one name has been quietly (and then loudly) dominating portfolios, brand guidelines, and editorial layouts: .
Let’s be honest: Lausanne is not free. A full commercial license for a small studio runs several hundred dollars. For a large brand, it can be thousands. However, Swiss Typefaces offers a (limited character set) and affordable single-weight licenses.
The Lausanne Pan version extended the font’s global reach by adding support for Greek and Cyrillic characters. High-Profile Usage
Available for free for non-commercial projects.
Projects for the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York and the Landesmuseum Zürich .