Riforma Mono是前者的等寬版本，另人想起了NORM最為著名、獨特且標誌性嚴謹與系統化的設計語言，等寬字體不意外的始終是他們實踐中不可或缺的一環，更能令人感到被作為一種結構嚴密、同時又允許細膩變奏的建築語言。在此版本中進一步強化了幾何結構與中性、盒狀的形態特徵，利用大x高度帶來的空間感，讓字母在單一寬度格內既緊密又蘊含動態。而在出版中亦特別收錄了完整的方框繪製字元與方塊元素（box-drawing & block elements），致敬在早期數位時代中的技術歷史。
Lineto是瑞士最具代表性的當代字體公司之一，1993年由平面設計師Cornel Windlin與字體設計師Stephan Müller創立，起初是為了發表他們個別的字體設計實驗，而很快地在五年後便以此為契機，發展為瑞士第一間將字體數位化並提供線上販售的字廠。除了核心成員外，Lineto也集結了如Norm（Dimitri Bruni和Manuel Krebs）、Laurenz Brunner、Aurèle Sack等設計師的作品，並逐漸擴張成一個由跨世代與跨地域設計師組成的開放式平台。
Lineto關注字體在當代表達中作為語言、系統與視覺風格的複雜角色，有著時而機能主義、時而帶有歷史性與實驗性之間的張力，不僅在造型結構上有著精準又大膽的取捨與同樣傳達出的感受，使之作為應用時不僅在如Spotify、Google、Nike、MoMA與Tate等跨國性品牌與文化機構受歡迎，也被許多獨立工作室在如編排設計等廣泛情境下使用；而另一方面在脈絡上也以嚴謹且獨特的視角回應著字體史，體現出字體設計作為文化實踐的一種可能。
除了提供數位字體的販售外，Lineto也不定期為適合與紙本對話的字體企劃出版，內容比起純粹實用性的實體樣本，更是一部部關於字體設計、視覺文化與設計歷史的視覺與理論檔案，透過各種形式探索著字體的深度、廣度與厚度。
Complementing NORM’s signature typeface LL Riforma, designed between 2012 and 2018, LL Riforma Mono is the latest addendum to the studio’s genre-defining type œuvre. The release coincides with the practice’s 25th anniversary since setting up in Zürich in 1999.
LL Riforma Mono reminds us of NORM’s earliest days when several self-made monospaced fonts were tailored to fit their ultra-normative approach to graphic design, meticulously considered and rigorously tuned to the millimeter. Still today, the monospace genre occupies a special position in the NORMverse. They consider the unified character width the most simple and versatile solution for typesetting. And they cheerfully embrace the challenge to fill the boxes in the best way possible with the rather random shapes that history has brought upon us in the form of Latin letters.
LL Riforma was predestined for a Mono fit, given its geometric construction and its slightly boxy shapes owed to a relatively large x-height. Many letters offered themselves to convenient squeezing into the boxes, while others provided sufficient options to expand on the playful undertones of this highly regulated typeface. The confidently prolonged serifs and crossbars present variations on some of the distinct strokes of LL Riforma, while the pronounced sharpness of the original shapes gives way to a slightly softer overall appearance. All the while the Mono styles preserve with grandezza the two outstanding qualities of their predecessor: a graphic appearance in large applications as well as excellent readability in smaller sizes.
To underscore the monospace dogma, LL Riforma is equipped with the full sets of Unicode-approved box-drawing characters and block elements. Both sets originated in the era of early digital fonts, when various kinds of lines and square-shapes were displayed and printed with the help of these semigraphics due to lack of better options. The approach became redundant once PostScript technology enabled the integration of text and drawings (as well as any other kind of imagery), and in the dawning age of artificial intelligence, the long-discarded semigraphics might remind us that typography was once a craft of the human hand.
Dimension: 216 × 288 mm
Pages: 20
Printing: offset
Binding: 3 Hole Pamphlet Stitch
Paper types: 2
Language: english
Special insert
Dimension: 210 × 280 mm
Printing: letterpress, offset
