Rauschen went through three significant design phases, searching for new expressions within the well-worn genre of sans serif grotesque typefaces. The result is a family with two subfamilies (A + B) and a headline cut based on Max Bill’s study for a typeface for machines and humans (Rauschen Max). Letters found on the poster by Leonetto Cappiello for “Contratto” were the starting point for clean geometric shapes with distinctive proportions. While working on this grotesque, a collaboration with Dave Macklovitch from Chromeo on the typography of Rane Seventy’s A-Trak signature edition battle mixer prompted a reworking of Rauschen. A colour-bleeding version (Rauschen B / Rauschen Max) was added to embrace all limitations of the printing technique: the design is back-printed on Lexan sheets, then applied to the metal panel. For the art catalogue raisonnée “Experience Implies Movement” by Vittorio Santoro, Rauschen was optimized for legibility and emphasized in proportions. A Regular Italic version was added, and each family was expanded with weights from Regular to Black. The result is a versatile and ultra-sturdy typeface suitable for screen and print with maximum character.