A revival of Royal Gothic, designed by Paul Barnes and expanded with assistance from Luke Charsley and Tim Ripper. An Italic was added in 2021. Expanded into a family of seven weights with a matching italic and moved into Commercial Type’s main library from the Vault in May 2025.

“Royal Gothic is a charming version of a boxy sans serif that first appeared around 1880 in Britain, now expanded from a single style into a seven-weight family with matching italics. Drawn by Paul Barnes with the assistance of Luke Charsley and Tim Ripper, this updated version both perfectly encapsulates its era and makes itself available for today’s more complex typographic requirements. In the lower case most letters are square in form, but the s remains decidedly grotesque; aside from the S, the capitals are compact. Royal Gothic’s origins are somewhat obscure: Though first found in London, it had a distinctly American name. It quickly appeared across both Europe and the United States and remained in circulation far into the twentieth century.” —Commercial Type