Sempione is a sans of ‘Swiss’ inspiration with a big x-height. It works well at all sizes, from small to large, and is suitable for both publishing and advertising. This typeface picks up some very different typographic traditions and ideas which have been reworked. These include ligatures and ornaments etc., usually associated with seriffed typefaces, and features typical of the Swiss school of sans serifs such as horizontal terminations and letters that tend to be of equal width. Its two main styles, Grotesk and Modern, are inspired by the early grots and 20th-century sanserifs. The result is a type family articulated in weights that go from Thin to Black which includes small caps, old style numerals, ligatures and decorations. The two styles comes with different interpretation of italic shapes: Cursive for Grotesk, with shapes recalling true italics, and Slanted for Modern, connecting to the classic style we can find in sanserifs.