Store Norske Bygg - Typeface inspired by Oslo construction company signage, evolved for digital restoration of the city’s visual dialect.

Bye & Winsvold mørtelverk, ca. 1935–1940. Photograph: Unknown / Oslo Museum.

About

Store Norske Bygg is a typeface inspired by the lettering found in photographs of Frimann Bye & Winsvold AS’s offices. This company supplied mortar and construction materials in Oslo during the 1920s and 1930s. Bygg originated from the ‘Skrift i Oslo’ exhibition, a project that showcased original Oslo signage and highlighted the city’s sign painting tradition. The project featured Bygg to illustrate how modern type design could help digitally restore Oslo’s visual dialect. The typeface eventually evolved into a complete functional alphabet and is now available as a two-weight monospace font.

The Store Norske Bygg Typeface font is designed by Arve Båtevik

Store Norske Bygg is designed by Arve Båtevik.

Technical information

For full technical specifications and character overview, please see the technical section at the end of the specimen PDF.

Language support

Bygg supports a compact Latin display character set covering selected Western European, Nordic and basic Latin language use.

Supported languages include Afrikaans, Albanian, Bemba, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Indonesian, Latin, Luxembourgeois, Norwegian, Somali, Swahili and Swedish.

Character set

Bygg supports a compact Latin display character set with uppercase and lowercase letters, selected accented Latin characters, figures, basic punctuation, spacing characters, ampersand and combining accents.