Grasso Variable — Width Meets Weight

Designer: Nicola Manzari, Bruno Pierini

Grasso catches the eye with well-balanced contrasts and a distinctly sharp personality. It is a characterful contemporary sans-serif type family with dynamic contrast that balances clarity with expressive individuality, allowing it to deliver high-impact display typography as effortlessly as softer, playful communication.

Built with subtle concave stems, wavy profiles, crisp terminals, and generous curves, the design blends vintage influences with contemporary flexibility, drawing inspiration from the memorable newspaper and magazine advertisements of the 1980s. The name Grasso reflects a funky design ethos that combines brutalist confidence with a warm, smiling spirit, revealing progressively more of its innate charm the bolder it gets.

Large formats such as posters and website headers represent its natural environment, grabbing the limelight with just enough quirks to hold attention while remaining exceptionally functional.

Performing seamlessly across physical print and modern screens alike, it serves as an unmistakable visual voice for boutique storefronts, cafes, dining venues, and vintage interior labels, while lending immense creative depth to product packaging, book covers, record sleeves, editorial titlepieces, and digital interfaces.

The lighter weights excel as refined companions to bolder display settings, completing compositions where heavier instances dominate, while also serving as reliable partners in both daring and conventional typographic pairings across editorial and branding projects. To grant complete creative freedom across diverse design contexts, Grasso offers an extensive family matrix spanning six calibrated weights from Thin to Heavy across two distinct widths including Roman, and Condensed, where every single instance across all widths and weights is accompanied by its own matching expressive italic. For modern digital workflows, the included variable font consolidates both the weight and width axes into an efficient, lightweight package, unlocking infinite intermediate styles with absolute precision, fully complemented by an extensive collection of stylistic alternates across numerous glyphs and broad Latin multilingual support.

Additional information

File name grassovf.ttf
File extension ttf
File format TrueType
File MIME type application/x-font-ttf
File size 203 KB
Copyright Copyright® 2026 by Unio Designs, with Reserved Font Names (Grasso Variable).
Font family Grasso Thin
Font subfamily Regular
Identifier 0.003;UKWN;Grasso-Thin
Full name Grasso Thin
Version Version 0.003;Glyphs 3.4.1 (3436)
PostScriptName Grasso-Thin
Manufacturer Unio Designs
Designer Nicola Manzari, Bruno Pierini
Vendor URL https://www.instagram.com/unio.creative/
Designer URL https://www.instagram.com/unio.creative/
Typographic Family name Grasso
Typographic Subfamily name Thin
Name ID 25 Grasso
Name ID 256 Weight
Name ID 257 Italic
Name ID 258 Width
Name ID 259 Light
Name ID 260 Grasso-Light
Name ID 261 Grasso-Regular
Name ID 262 Medium
Name ID 263 Grasso-Medium
Name ID 264 Bold
Name ID 265 Grasso-Bold
Name ID 266 Heavy
Name ID 267 Grasso-Heavy
Name ID 268 Thin Condensed
Name ID 269 Grasso-ThinCondensed
Name ID 270 Light Condensed
Name ID 271 Grasso-LightCondensed
Name ID 272 Regular Condensed
Name ID 273 Grasso-RegularCondensed
Name ID 274 Medium Condensed
Name ID 275 Grasso-MediumCondensed
Name ID 276 Bold Condensed
Name ID 277 Grasso-BoldCondensed
Name ID 278 Heavy Condensed
Name ID 279 Grasso-HeavyCondensed
Name ID 280 Thin Ita
Name ID 281 Grasso-ThinIta
Name ID 282 Light Ita
Name ID 283 Grasso-LightIta
Name ID 284 Regular Ita
Name ID 285 Grasso-RegularIta
Name ID 286 Medium Ita
Name ID 287 Grasso-MediumIta
Name ID 288 Bold Ita
Name ID 289 Grasso-BoldIta
Name ID 290 Heavy Ita
Name ID 291 Grasso-HeavyIta
Name ID 292 Thin Condensed Ita
Name ID 293 Grasso-ThinCondensedIta
Name ID 294 Light Condensed Ita
Name ID 295 Grasso-LightCondensedIta
Name ID 296 Regular Condensed Ita
Name ID 297 Grasso-RegularCondensedIta
Name ID 298 Medium Condensed Ita
Name ID 299 Grasso-MediumCondensedIta
Name ID 300 Bold Condensed Ita
Name ID 301 Grasso-BoldCondensedIta
Name ID 302 Heavy Condensed Ita
Name ID 303 Grasso-HeavyCondensedIta
Name ID 304 Condensed
Name ID 305 Ita

Font Details

: Sep 22, 2026
: 1
: Demo for Personal Use
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Grasso Thin

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Grasso Thin Ita

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Grasso Thin Condensed Ita

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Grasso Thin Condensed

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Grasso Thin

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Grasso Regular Ita

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Grasso Regular Condensed Ita

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Grasso Regular Condensed

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Grasso Regular

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Grasso Medium Ita

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