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Le Murmure
Jérémy Landes designed Le Murmure as the custom identity face for the French design agency Murmure, then released it libre through Velvetyne in 2018. A highly condensed titling sans with calligraphy-inspired details, it plays on a skillful mismatch between characters that gives headlines an unmistakable rhythm.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Jérémy Landes (Studio Triple), published by Velvetyne under the OFL-1.1 Open Font License. You can use it, freely. Get the files.
Pairs well with
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Inter — a self-effacing sans that gives the condensed titling face all the air.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Lora — a brushed-x-height serif whose calm text pages suit Le Murmure mastheads.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
IBM Plex Mono — a dry technical mono that offsets the editorial elegance.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Le Murmure over Inter. Where they agree the strokes merge; where they argue, fringes.
“Hamburgefonstiv” is the type designer's test word — it carries most of the shapes that give a face away.