The category of typefaces that combine principles of serif and sans-serif design is often referred to as linear serif or humanist sans-serif. A serifless antiqua has attracted well-deserved attention with its elegant appearance since the beginning of the twentieth century. Tabac Glam is such a typeface — a high-contrast display font.
A sans-serif typeface dominated by vertical strokes can rarely compete in readability with book types, whose lowercase and uppercase letters are firmly anchored to the baseline by means of bottom serifs. However, if all characters in the set are clearly differentiated, the design can do without this otherwise useful aid — especially when it contains numerous dynamic details that disrupt the mechanical alternation of light and dark strokes within the alphabet.
Like the serif branch of the Tabac family, Glam offers four degrees of secondary stroke contrast. Because Glam is designed primarily for display sizes, the differences between the individual grades are noticeably subtler. While G1 performs best in large headlines, G2 and G3 are suited to medium sizes, and G4 complements them effectively even in text settings, where excessive stroke contrast would complicate readability and threaten print consistency. Similarly, the contrast grades can be applied in digital responsive typography, where each level finds appropriate use across different screen sizes — desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile.

Tabac Glam expands the expressive range of the Tabac superfamily with another distinctive tonal variation.