Italian type designer Maurizio Osti and American type designer Jane Patterson created this display FontFont in 2003.

The family contains 4 weights and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, music and nightlife as well as poster and billboards.

FF Folk provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, alternate characters, case-sensitive forms, and stylistic alternates.The font was based on the original alphabet created by Ben Shahn in 1940.

It comes with proportional lining and tabular lining figures.