L’Obs website
L’Obs, formerly known as Le Nouvel Observateur, is the French weekly news magazine with the widest reach. Founded in 1950, it covers all general fields of information, from domestic and international politics and economy to culture, literature and lifestyle.
As of 2022, their website uses Production Type’s Newsreader as its primary identity typeface. Commissioned by Google Fonts and released in 2021, Newsreader was designed by Hugues Gentile, with contributions by Jean-Baptiste Levée and others. It was conceived as a variable font especially suitable for continuous on-screen reading, making best use of optical sizes. In its static version the family breaks down to 42 styles.
The website of L’Obs uses Newsreader for headlines, lead-ins and quotes, in styles from the Text (16pt) and Display (72pt) sizes. Across the vast online presence of L’Obs including its various subbrands and spinoffs, Newspaper is paired with various other typefaces. In the images of the main site shown here, we get to see Jonny Pinhorn’s sans serif Karla and Vernon Adams’s narrow Oswald. The current logo was introduced already in 2014 and is a custom design by Serge Ricco.
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I’m here and have 'liked’ because this was in Leonardo de la Fuente's 'fuenteslibres’ Set, Leonardo having 'liked’ several on my 'Fonts In Use’ contributions over this past few days.
The great attraction regarding this 'Fonts In Use’ contribution is that I use Karla as the font for the main body text at my various WordPress.com Blogs, 'Girls Of The Golden East’, 'Hotlips On The Horse Tram’, 'Lost In France’ and 'The Fifth Oorthuysen’. I was primarily inspired to use Karla as 'Karla’ is the genitive of 'Karel’ in Czech, Karel Gott having been a great personality on the music scene of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia before that.
How fitting that this contribution should have a French connection, given that 'Lost In France’ deals with the Pop Culture of France of the 1970s!