Sirca distills Walter Käch’s serif experiments into a contemporary type system. Rooted in a critical re-reading of his mid-century letterforms, the family spans 22 styles across Display and Text, with matching italics throughout, balancing typographic clarity with subtle warmth.
Käch’s models stood at the intersection of geometric construction and humanist gesture, a dialogue that Sirca reopens through a contemporary lens. Across the family, the same underlying serif structure is maintained throughout, an uncommon choice that gives Sirca its distinctive and cohesive tone. As the weights increase, mass is drawn inward, producing denser, more compact forms that echo the condensed display types of the late ’60s phototype era.
The Text styles carry the same underlying structure into continuous reading. Their forms are more open, their weight more evenly distributed, and their details more robust, with proportions carefully harmonised to produce a consistent text colour and a steadier reading rhythm.
While the Display styles preserve the timeless grace and expressive character of their historical sources, the Text styles translate the same DNA into a quieter, more durable texture. Together, they form a genre-blending system: classic yet vivid, crafted for editorial design, titles, logotypes, and extended reading.
A design shaped by the past, sharpened for the century ahead.
[Käch’s original models were first published in 1949 in the trilingual book Schriften, Lettering, Écritures.]
