Meet Unifora, Yep! Type Foundry’s uniwidth sans serif with 135 styles

Exactly a year before Unifora’s release, on 12 April 2025, Yep! Type Foundry posted on X (Twitter) that designing a uniwidth typeface family was such a challenge, they didn’t think they’d take on another one anytime soon. That was only half a joke. The Lisbon-based foundry had been mid-way through a project that, by founder Roman Shamin’s own admission, came close to being abandoned over a tiny detail: where to place a comma between two Retalic (backslant) ‘O’s. Unifora picks up where DIN typeface left off, taking the constructed logic of technical lettering and pushing it through the demands of contemporary screens. The superfamily has 135 styles plus a variable font. Its five widths run from Condensed at 75% to Expanded at 125%, with Narrow, Standard and Semiexpanded sitting between. Nine weights span Thin to Black. The slant axis runs continuously from -18° to +18°, covering Italic in one direction and Retalic in the other. Shamin brainstormed dozens of options for the name. Vextor, Constructor, Mechanica, Tectura and Ungineer all came up before landing on Uniforma, which felt ideal. It’s literally ‘unified form,’ with ‘uni’ doing double duty as a nod to the uniwidth principle. But two problems killed it. The name carried a faintly militaristic undertone, and it was already taken. Unifora arrived as a subtle derivative.