28/04/2026
⚽️🏀 We reimagined L’Équipe Magazine, the weekly supplement of France’s leading sports 🗞️newspaper, in close collaboration with the editorial team. The cover was redefined through a simple gesture: isolating the letter “É” from L’Équipe as the magazine’s logo, to singularize it and give more space to the visuals. Our work on the new formula started with a deep exploration of the archive, dating back to the 80s. We brought back some design ◾️➖elements from past issues—underlined standfirsts, paragraph-starting squares, thick lines—and combined them with a timeless layout.
🆎 Gradin, the custom font we designed for the project, is a sans-serif headline typeface developed for tight compositions. It combines a compact width, minimal spacing, and square counters to produce dense and impactful headlines. Inspired by Compacta, historically used for the magazine’s identity, it offers a contemporary reinterpretation with a more monolinear construction. The family includes eight weights from Light to Black with italics, including a 22.5-degree italic based on the dynamic slant of the 1946 L’Équipe logo.
