While teaching an exercise on slab serifs in 2011, designer José Manuel Urós discovered Robert Thorne’s work for Thorowgood. Fascinated by the extraordinary density of the 6-line Egyptian Pica from 1820-21, he wanted to test the limits of readability within the context of a contemporary alphabet. Rothwood Ultra is the result of this experiment. Once the initial style was in place, Josema went to the opposite end of the spectrum to evolve the DNA of the Ultra into a light weight style. Rothwood includes a wide range of weights and two optical sizes.