De Telegraaf shrinks its format — and puts Tablet Gothic and Abril to work

In 2012 one of the largest and iconic Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf went through a major redesign that included going from the traditional broadsheet format to a smaller tabloid.

The redesign was developed by the design team of De Telegraaf—Hans Haasnoot, art director, and Rig Hehenkamp, associate art director— and Garciamedia as consultants.

The new De Telegraaf uses a typographic palette that includes Tablet Gothic, esspecially for headlines, as well as Abril Text and Abril Titling. Tablet Gothic and Abril are a prefect match sharing proportions, texture, and a similar typographic language.

Garciamedia published a few articles about the redesign.