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Luc(as) de Groot is the professor for type design at the FH Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Born and raised in the Netherlands, he has lived in Berlin since 1993 and is known as the creator of typefaces like Corpid, JesusLovesYouAll, Koning, Nebulae, Spiegel, Sun, Taz, TheAntiqua, TheMix, TheSans, TheSansMono, TheSerif and others. These retail fonts are all sold by his company LucasFonts GmbH, also based in Berlin. De Groot’s most famous custom fonts are Calibri and Consolas – designed for Microsoft – which most computer users have pre-installed in their operating systems. This website is a portfolio for many of his projects.

Lucas de Groot

Dutch type designer Luc(as) de Groot is best-known for his superfamily Thesis: TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix, TheAntiqua, with monospaced and even Arabic variants. He designed custom fonts for periodicals such as taz, die tageszeitung, Der Spiegel and Jungle World in Germany, Le Monde, Metro, and the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo; and corporate type for international companies like Sun Microsystems, Bell South, Heineken, Volkswagen and Miele. For Microsoft he developed Consolas, successor for Courier, and Calibri, the new default typeface in MS Word.

Luc(as) is a father, husband, illustrator and master of many crafts. As a devoted type technician and hinting lover, he invented the Anisotropic Topology-Dependent Theory of Interpolation. He runs his type foundry LucasFonts in Berlin, teaches and gives lectures around the world.

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TheSans is part of the Thesis superfamily which Luc(as) de Groot first published in 1994. Over the subsequent decades, TheSans came to epitomize the useful-yet-friendly, all-purpose contemporary sans-serif. It has become the face of thousands of organisations, publications and web sites, making it one of the most widely used sans-serifs world-wide.

Thesis was conceived as a versatile typographic system of ambitious scope. It grew out of a dissatisfaction with the limited range of good typefaces available for corporate identity projects. It aims to fill that gap by providing the user with three compatible styles – TheSans, TheMix and TheSerif  – in an optically harmonious range of eight weights, including real italics for each weight.

TheSans is a low-contrast typeface – i.e., the differences between thin and thick strokes are not very pronounced. Yet the reference to writing with the broad-nibbed pen is still present, giving the letters a diagonal stress and a forward flow that facilitates reading. The roman letterforms tend to have some characteristics of an italic or written construction. Yet the italic forms themselves are very distinctive: they were not derived from the upright but were individually designed while perfectly complementing the roman forms.

Version history

FontFont published FF TheSans in 1994. In 1999, Luc(as) began selling licenses himself, renaming it TheSans (classic) . The fonts had Proportional Oldstyle figures, but TheSans Basic was created to offer Proportional Lining figures. We also used to sell TheSans Caps , with small caps instead of lowercase. These fonts supported Western European languages only. OpenType allowed us to include more characters, and we created a system for package naming. Here’s a description .

TheSans Office

This four-font family has the structure that’s conventional on Windows: Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic. These are linked, meaning they can be accessed through the “B” (Bold) and “I” (Italic) buttons in office programs. The TrueType versions are manually hinted, giving them excellent reading quality on-screen in Microsoft’s Windows applications.

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Luc(as) de Groot

Berlin-based Dutch type designer Luc(as) de Groot is best-known for his superfamily Thesis: TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix, TheAntiqua, with monospaced and even Arabic variants. But his repertoire is much wider and his type became a subtle part of everyday life. Luc(as) has designed custom fonts for newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo, Le Monde, Metro, Der Spiegel, taz.die tageszeitung, Freitag, Jungle World – in addition to creating corporate type for international companies including Sun Microsystems, Bell South, Heineken, Volkswagen and Miele. He developed two font families for Microsoft: the monospaced font family Consolas, as a successor for Courier, and Calibri, the new default typeface in MS Word. Web: Typefaces: TheSans , TheSerif , TheMix , TheAntiqua More… Luc(as) de Groot

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Lucas de Groot, known professionally as Luc(as) de Groot (born 21 June 1963 in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands) is a Dutch type designer. He is the head of the type foundry Fontfabrik. He is mostly known for the very large font family Thesis (TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix, TheSansMono and later TheAntiqua) and Corpid (previously AgroSans). Luc de Groot also designed custom fonts such as Calibri and Consolas for Microsoft Windows Vista, for magazines and newspapers like Der Spiegel with "SpiegelSans", die tageszeitung with "Taz", Folha de S. Paulo with "FolhaSerif", or corporations like Sun Microsystems with "SunSans". Lucas de Groot teaches at the Design Faculty of the University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germany.

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UM uses three fonts internally: Thesis Sans (from the Dutch type setter Lucas de Groot) for all printed material and for the UM website, Verdana for all other digital products and letters and Calibri for PowerPoint presentations. For more information please scroll to the bottom of this page.

Various Thesis typefaces are available; UM uses (sans-serif) Thesis Sans, which comes in many fonts (bold, regular, light, etc.). Thesis Sans is the standard typeface used in UM’s basic house style elements, such as the logo, endorsed A-brands and UM unit names . We recommend using Thesis Sans as often as possible; along with the logo and colours, typography reflects the same standards of consistency for all university units.

Professional users – including our preferred suppliers, such as (DTP) designers with graphic design programs – use a open type (CFF) version of Thesis Sans. UM’s corresponding licence covers the following Thesis Sans font styles.

• Thesis Sans Bold
• Thesis Sans Semi Bold
• Thesis Sans Regular
• Thesis Sans Semi Light
• Thesis Sans Expert
• Thesis Sans Bold Italic
• Thesis Sans Semi Bold Italic
• Thesis Sans Regular Italic
• Thesis Sans Semi Light Italic

It is recommended to always balance the weight of different fonts used (for example to combine Thesis Sans Bold with Thesis Sans Regular or Thesis Sans Semi Bold with Thesis Sans Semi Light). For design and layout, please contact our preferred suppliers. For the website only the font weights Semi Light, Plain, Bold and tabular lining figures should be used.

Use the Truetype typeface ‘Verdana’ for stationery, reports and other digital communication media. The typeface "Calibri" is used for Power Point presentations. Verdana and Calibri are standard Microsoft Windows inclusion available on all PCs.

• Luc(as) de Groot

Dutch type designer living in Berlin

The Thesis font family - The extensive Thesis font family with ist many variations; TheSerif, TheSans, and TheMix (the latter was used for developing TheMix Arabic version). Luc(as) de Groot

Lucas de Groot. Born in The Netherlands and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague under Gerrit Noordzij.

He worked for four years with the Dutch design group BRS Premsela Vonk, and also taught at the Art Academy in Den Bosch. He moved to Berlin in 1993 to join MetaDesign where he worked for another four years. As typographic director at MetaDesign in Berlin, he worked on a range of corporate design projects; from logos, magazine concepts and custom typefaces, to fine-tuning and implementing type. In 1997 Lucas accepted a part- time teaching position in Potsdam, a former East German city just outside of Berlin. The Fachhochschule Potsdam was founded shortly after the unification of Germany and is currently the only school in Germany to employ a Professor of Type Development. Together with the Dutch typographer Wim Westerveld he started a new company. Under the name FontFabrik he offers services like type and logo development and digital implementation to design and advertising agencies. For the German magazine DER SPIEGEL, Lucas designed an exclusive series of fonts. For SUN Microsystems, two exclusive type families were designed. For the Dutch Ministry of Landbouw Natuurbeheer en Visserij, FontFabrik developed an exclusive typeface family. In addition to his famous and extensive Thesis font family, he has developed several typefaces that are published by his own private font foundry, LucasFonts.

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The thesis font family.

The extensive Thesis font family with ist many variations; TheSerif, TheSans, and TheMix (the latter was used for developing TheMix Arabic version).