Roquefort
Stinky
Cheeky
Vivacious
Noisy
Designer
Lewis MacDonald
Released
October 2018
Updated
February 2019
Version
1.200

Roquefort (the typeface) is a quirky expanded grotesque, which, like Roquefort (the cheese), is pongy and full of flavour. However, where Roquefort (the cheese) develops its pungent tang through a lengthy maturation process, Roquefort (the typeface) takes the opposite approach.

With the desire to avoid the over-thinking and over-refinement that can slowly sanitise a typeface design over time, Roquefort (the typeface) was produced hastily, with the hope of creating a grotesque with all the wonky inconsistencies that give a grot its distinct flavour.

Société des Caves
Le roquefort est un fromage français très prisé par l’empereur Charlemagne. En France, on l’appelle le «fromage des rois et des papes»
Roquefort AOP Papillon Black Label Half Moon ($16.54/lb)
Green Fig Confit & Cornichon Relish
Roquefort is a sheep milk cheese from the south of France, and together with Bleu d’Auvergne, Stilton, and Gorgonzola is one of the world’s best known blue cheeses.
Jamón Ibérico ‡ ‘Gran Reserva’
According to legend, Roquefort cheese was discovered when a shepherd, eating his lunch of bread and ewes’ milk cheese, saw a beautiful girl in the distance. Abandoning his meal in a nearby cave, he ran to meet her. When he returned a few months later, the mold (Penicillium roqueforti) had transformed his plain cheese into Roquefort.[3][4] In 79 AD, Pliny the Elder praised the cheeses of Lozère and Gévaudan and reported their popularity in ancient Rome; in 1737, Jean Astruc suggested that this was a reference to an ancestor of Roquefort.[5] The theory was widely taken up, and by the 1860s was being promoted by the Société des Caves.[6] Others have dismissed the idea, on the grounds that Pliny does not clearly identify a blue cheese.[7] There is no clear consensus on the meaning of Pliny’s description—it has been variously interpreted as a reference to fromage frais, cheese pickled in grape-juice, and even fondue,[8] as well as a reference to Roquefort. By the middle ages, Roquefort had become a recognized cheese. On 4 June 1411, Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of the cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.[9][10] By 1820, Roquefort was producing 300 tonnes a year, a figure that steadily increased throughout the next century so that by 1914 it was 9,250.
APPELLATION D’ORIGINE CONTRÔLÉE
Variously-angled stroke endings
Awkward bottom-heavy forms
Aggressive stem narrowing at joins
Deeply-notched inktraps
Alternate a (OFF)
Standard Ligatures (OFF)
Discretionary Ligatures (OFF)
OpenType Features
SS01Alternate a
LIGAStandard Ligatures
DLIGDiscretionary Ligatures
Languages Supported
Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Maltese, Manx, Morisyen, Northern Sami, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek (Latin), Volapük, Vunjo, Welsh, Western Frisian, Zulu
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Character Name — [LIGA]
Unicode Hex —
Roquefort Family
£140
Mild
£40
Semi-Mild
£40
Standard
£40
Semi-Strong
£40
Strong
£40
Total
£40