Fort Light Font

Fort Font is a contemporary grotesk born from years of graphic design experience and the ongoing demand for a versatile, high-performance sans serif. Its defining traits include squared shoulders, distinctive counterforms in rounded characters, carefully redrawn slanted italics, and a uniform texture across the weight range. While neutral and dependable enough for information design, branding, and small text, Fort’s subtle character and refined details come to life in display settings.

Where the soil near the surface cannot carry a building, the load is taken down on piles. End-bearing piles reach a firm stratum and transfer weight directly onto it. Friction piles carry their load through the grip of the soil along their whole length. Piles are either driven with a hammer or drilled and filled with concrete, and a driving log records the number of blows required for each foot of penetration, which the engineer compares against the resistance the design assumed.