Julian Grotesk Font Julian Grotesk by Simon Dunford is a typeface with a specific and characterful cultural origin — named after Académie Julian, the influential Parisian art school attended by several celebrated painters and lettering artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its defining structural feature is a design in two widths that creates an inherent rhythmic variation across a word or line, evoking the kind of deliberate optical irregularity that was a…