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ANDREW PAGLINAWAN
Graphic Designer / Type Designer
Dubai — UAE

01 / Overview · Andrew Paglinawan

BrightGrotesk

A grotesk family in eight weights, from Thin to ExtraBold. Matching italics, alternate forms and variable upright and italic fonts.

Aa
Family 16 Styles
Family Thin → ExtraBold Variable upright + italic

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890“!@#$%^&*()_+”

02 / Design

Letterform Design

Selected Regular letterforms and the italic. Explore alternate capitals and swashes in the feature chapter.

a

Lowercase a

Double-storey form, with an angled terminal at the foot.

b

Lowercase b

Curved entry to the ascender; compare the bowl and stem.

GQ

Capital forms

Regular capitals. Alternate G and Q forms are available in ss01.

Bright.

Regular Italic / 400
Native italic outlines. Swashes can be enabled separately.

03 / Family

Weights & Styles

16 static styles. Upright and italic, paired by weight.

WeightUprightItalic
Thin100

Hamburgefonts

Hamburgefonts

UltraLight200

Hamburgefonts

Hamburgefonts

Light300

Hamburgefonts

Hamburgefonts

Book350

Hamburgefonts

Hamburgefonts

Regular400

Hamburgefonts

Hamburgefonts

Semibold600

Hamburgefonts

Hamburgefonts

Bold700

Hamburgefonts

Hamburgefonts

ExtraBold800

Hamburgefonts

Hamburgefonts

Variable upright + italic wght 100–800Explore the weight axis ↑

Variable / wght 100–800

Variable Font

Move continuously between weights. Edit the text to test the interpolation.

Hamburgefonts
0123456789
04 / Features

OpenType Features

Alternates SS01

Alternate capitals

G Q R &

Italic swashes SWASH

Italic swashes

AWAY.

Hj  Ni  Uj  Vi  Wj

Swashes are available in italic styles.

Hidden icons SS02

Text-triggered icons

(email)

Type a supported trigger and enable ss02.

Ligatures · DLIG

Discretionary ligatures

A fine craft. A lasting effect.

ct fb fh fi fj fl st

Enable dlig to substitute the supported letter pairs.

Numbers · FRAC

Fractions & ordinals

12/345

In order · ORDN

1a 2o

Ordinals
Up · SUPS

H2O

Superscripts
Down · SUBS

H2O

Subscripts

05 / Coverage

Character Set & Language Support

Encoded characters and OpenType access paths are catalogued separately. Inspect names, Unicode, metrics and weight below.

Aa Bb Cc Éé Čč Ññ
0123456789 € £ ¥

Extended Latin characters include accents and diacritics. Check the characters required by your text; character coverage alone does not verify complete language support.

Accents, localised forms & punctuation +
Extended Latin

Extended Latin

Żółć

É À Ç œÄ Ö Ü ß

Þ þ Ð ðÃ Õ Ç

Ș ș Ț țİ ıÑ ¿ ¡

Accents, diacritics and localised forms.

Local details · LOCL

i İ ı

Turkish i
Catalan · LOCL

l·l L·L

A middle dot, in context
Romanian · LOCL

Ş ş Ţ ţ

Cedilla input, comma-below forms
Punctuation

Punctuation

“¿?!”

( ) [ ] { }

« » ‹ › ‘ ’ „ & @ # * • …

- – — / \ § ¶ © ® ™

Quotes, brackets, punctuation and editorial symbols.

Explore the character set Glyphs, alternates, swashes & icons +
Regular / italic where indicated

Select a character to inspect it. Arrow keys to browse; Home / End to jump within a category.

Basic Latin 55 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Extended Latin 195 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Numbers 53 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Punctuation 45 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Symbols 111 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Arrows 10 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Alternates 32 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Ligatures 7 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Swashes 36 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Icons 26 entries · Regular / italic where indicated

Inspect Bright Grotesk

Ascender1000
Cap height700
x-height520
Baseline0
Descender-240

Glyph name
Unicode
Access
Style

Drawn from the Bright Grotesk 2 fonts. Encoded characters and OpenType access paths are shown separately. Swashes belong to the italics; the missing-character fallback is excluded.

06 / In use

Typography in Use

Display, reading text and information. Three settings at different scales.

Field Notes / 07Editorial

Reading
the city.

A record of public spaces, street signs and the routes between them.

The first walk begins at the water. From the station, a narrow street leads past the market and into a square. Shops open onto the pavement; above them, windows follow the curve of the road.

At each junction, a sign gives the next destination. Distances, directions and street names become part of the journey. These notes record the details that make a place recognisable.

Regular text / Bold heading / Italic emphasis

DeparturesLocal time

Platform
information.

08:15Central01
09:40Riverside04
10:06North End06

Numerals / names / platform numbers

Display / BoldIdentity

Studio

Architecture & spatial design
Dubai / Established 2026

07 / Evaluation

Try & License

Select a specimen to edit. Adjust style, weight, size, spacing, alignment and supported features with the type tester.

Editable / Static & Variable

Type Tester

Select a line. Choose Edit. Try your own text.

Regular

Bright Grotesk. Type your text here.
Additional editable specimens 16 styles +

Thin

Bright Grotesk began with a simple idea: to make something clear, useful and full of character. Built from familiar grotesk forms but drawn with a more human hand, it embraces the little irregularities that give letters personality. What started as an exploration of shape and proportion slowly grew into a family made to speak in many voices, from the quietest line of text to the loudest word on the page.

Thin Italic

Perhaps.

UltraLight

There is something beautiful about beginnings. Before the rules arrive, before things acquire names, categories and expectations, everything is still possible.

UltraLight Italic

Look again.

Light

A point moves. A curve changes. Space opens. Something that wasn't there a moment ago begins to take shape.

Light Italic

Draw. Print. Look. Correct. Repeat.

Book

You learn to listen. You stop asking whether every letter is beautiful on its own and begin asking whether they belong together. Letters become words. Words become thoughts. Thoughts fill pages, signs, screens, books, packages and places. A typeface has to live in all of them. It must speak when asked and disappear when it should.

Book Italic

Quietly.

Regular

Personality lives in the smallest decisions: the cut of a terminal, the shape of a bowl, the rhythm between letters, the way a sentence settles into a line.

Regular Italic

Humanist.

Semibold

Eventually, uncertainty becomes intention. The forms settle, the rhythm becomes clearer, and what began as a collection of individual decisions starts speaking as one.

Semibold Italic

Charmingly Awkward.

Bold

LOUDER.

Bold Italic

But never for the sake of noise.

ExtraBold

16 STYLES. ONE VOICE. NEVER QUITE THE SAME.

ExtraBold Italic

Bright Grotesk.

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Other styles, family upgrades, and separately sold products require their own purchase.

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