Divulge

I released Divulge on February 7, 2008, as a commercial sans serif. The aim was to capture the spirit of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century grotesques, the period before Akzidenz-Grotesk established a clearer standard for the genre. Many of those early sans serifs looked like serif designs with the terminals removed, and they often carried awkward proportions. With Divulge, I wanted to retain some of that early character while presenting it in a more polished digital form.

The family was released in three weights and two widths, each with italics. The design is largely conventional but includes a few small deviations, most noticeably a gap in the bowl of the lowercase g. The intention was not to revive any specific historic face but to create something that echoed the transitional nature of pre-modernist grotesques.

I updated the typeface on May 25, 2021, to remove deprecated characters, fix inconsistencies, improve OpenType coding, and adjust vertical metrics for browser compatibility. A further revision on October 28, 2024, corrected internal style naming so the weights and widths would display in proper order in application menus. Divulge has never appeared in notable projects.