Collaboration with graphic designers allows us to carefully assess their needs when selecting typefaces for specific applications. This enables us to take their practical requirements into account and create typefaces specifically tailored to those needs. It was precisely these needs that formed the basis for the Tabac typeface system.
The basic idea was high contrast variability, allowing the typeface to span several classification groups, from text to headline type. To achieve this, we used the principle of scaling stroke width by gradually, subtly thickening hairline strokes. The entire text typeface family is available in four subtle optical grades that subtly adjust the darkness of the typeset. This is extremely useful for fine-tuning the final layout of printed materials based on the material used, print quality, or printing technique, as the typeface's width proportions—and thus the final typeset—remain unchanged.
Tabac is a static, modern-style serif typeface with distinctive wedge-shaped serifs designed for typesetting newspapers, magazines, and books. By scaling stroke width across all weights, including bold weights, the system achieves a high degree of contrast variability. The typeface has an open design without any unusual shape variations, as one would expect from a text typeface. Nevertheless, the austere design creates a pleasant tension on the line, and in headline sizes, its strong character really stands out. The italic is slightly thinner than the corresponding upright style. Lowercase letters, where the design allows, have as identical a width as possible to the upright style. This is to ensure that the column length changes as little as possible when a section of text is highlighted. Sufficient legibility is achieved through much smoother connections of secondary strokes to the stem and through shape modulation.

This text family forms the basis for the entire typeface system of the Tabac superfamily.