Originally drawn for Christian Schwartz’s own corporate branding
and called Plakat, Graphik was commissioned
by Robert Priest and Grace Lee for Condé Nast
Portfolio. Meirion Pritchard at Wallpaper*
commissioned additional styles. Publicly released in 2009. Further
extended with support for Greek (by Panos Haratzopoulos) and
Cyrillics (by Ilya Ruderman) in 2015. In September 2017, the series
was expanded with Graphik
Arabic (by Wael Morcos and Khajag Apelian) and six
families of narrower width, from Compact to XXXX Condensed (see
Graphik
Condensed). Also in 2017, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, Smich
Smanloh, and Knaz Uiyamathiti drew Graphik Thai Loop; and Smich
Smanloh drew the loopless Graphik Thai variant. Graphik
Wide followed in 2018, as did Graphik Hebrew, drawn by
Yanek Iontef More…
Originally drawn for Christian Schwartz’s own corporate branding and called Plakat, Graphik was commissioned by Robert Priest and Grace Lee for Condé Nast Portfolio. Meirion Pritchard at Wallpaper* commissioned additional styles. Publicly released in 2009. Further extended with support for Greek (by Panos Haratzopoulos) and Cyrillics (by Ilya Ruderman) in 2015. In September 2017, the series was expanded with Graphik Arabic (by Wael Morcos and Khajag Apelian) and six families of narrower width, from Compact to XXXX Condensed (see Graphik Condensed). Also in 2017, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, Smich Smanloh, and Knaz Uiyamathiti drew Graphik Thai Loop; and Smich Smanloh drew the loopless Graphik Thai variant. Graphik Wide followed in 2018, as did Graphik Hebrew, drawn by Yanek Iontef and Daniel Grumer. Yury Ostromentsky drew Graphik Georgian in 2019. Graphik Armenian (Khajag Apelian) followed in 2020. Bangla (Arya Purohit), Devanagari (Hitesh Malaviya), and Tamil (Hitesh Malaviya) were released in 2024. Produkt is a slab serif counterpart.
