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Jacques Le Bailly

Jacques Le Bailly is credited on 16 families in the library. The first was added in 2011 and the latest in 2024. By class: 14 sans serifs, one handwriting face, one serif. Nine are variable fonts. The most frequent co-credit is Impallari Type, on 6 families.

The familiesIn order of addition, each name set in its own outlines

PacificoHandwriting · 2011 · weights 400MulishSans serif · 2011 · weights 200–1000MontserratSans serif · 2011 · weights 100–900NunitoSans serif · 2012 · weights 200–1000
Montserrat AlternatesSans serif · 2012 · weights 100–900 (9)
Nunito SansSans serif · 2016 · weights 200–1000
Encode Sans CondensedSans serif · 2017 · weights 100–900 (9)
Encode Sans ExpandedSans serif · 2017 · weights 100–900 (9)
Encode Sans Semi CondensedSans serif · 2017 · weights 100–900 (9)
Encode Sans Semi ExpandedSans serif · 2017 · weights 100–900 (9)
Crimson ProSerif · 2018 · weights 200–900
LivvicSans serif · 2019 · weights 100–900 (8)
Encode SansSans serif · 2020 · weights 100–900
Encode Sans SCSans serif · 2020 · weights 100–900
Radio CanadaSans serif · 2022 · weights 300–700
Montserrat UnderlineSans serif · 2024 · weights 100–900

Range of the work

The lowercase runs from Crimson Pro, the shortest at 420 units per 1,000 em, to Encode Sans at 543. In width, Encode Sans is the narrowest (430) and Montserrat Alternates the widest (588). Beyond Latin, the families cover four subsets: Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese. Measured against the medians of their own classes, nine of the 15 families with ascenders have a taller x-height, seven of all 16 set a wider lowercase and five a darker one.

Against the class medianDifferences from the median of each family’s class, per 1,000 em; ink in percentage points

FamilyClassx-heightWidthInkWeightsSubsets
PacificoHandwriting+25+41+43 pts4005
Encode SansSans serif+24−92±0 pts100–9003
Encode Sans CondensedSans serif+24−91+1 pts100–900 (9)3
Encode Sans ExpandedSans serif+24+49−4 pts100–900 (9)3
Encode Sans Semi CondensedSans serif+24−55−1 pts100–900 (9)3
Encode Sans Semi ExpandedSans serif+24+13−3 pts100–900 (9)3
Montserrat AlternatesSans serif+7+66−8 pts100–900 (9) + italic5
MontserratSans serif+7+52−7 pts100–900 + italic5
Montserrat UnderlineSans serif+7+52−2 pts100–900 + italic5
Radio CanadaSans serif−4−1+2 pts300–700 + italic4
MulishSans serif−16+1−2 pts200–1000 + italic5
LivvicSans serif−22−14−2 pts100–900 (8) + italic3
NunitoSans serif−25−14−2 pts200–1000 + italic5
Nunito SansSans serif−32−14−1 pts200–1000 + italic5
Crimson ProSerif−62−54+2 pts200–900 + italic3
Encode Sans SCSans serifno ascenders−29−7 pts100–9003