The result was a sans serif monoline (all lines are of equal thickness) typeface.

At the same time they commissioned Crouwel, they asked Josef Müller-Brockmann to design a typeface as well.

[1] The most notable use of Gridnik was on a series of Number Postage Stamps for the Dutch PTT, designed in the same period as the Olivetti commission.

He drew a special version of Politene, consisting of the word nederland and the numerals.

[3] Originally, it only consisted of one font – as part of the Architype 3 Crouwel collection – but it was later expanded with a light a medium and a bold.