Excon is an excellent choice for corporate identity and editorial design work. The typeface’s letters include some stroke contrast – otherwise their top-heaviness would not be visible – and other typical mid-20th-century traits, like its mixing of a double-storey ‘a’ with a single-storey ‘g’. The stroke contrast is dialled-down in the family’s lightest Thin weight, but by the Black, the contrast is quite pronounced in many characters. Excon’s lowercase has a tall x-height, paired with ascenders that are noticeably taller than the capital letters. Its numerals are proportionally-spaced, and drawn to be as tall as Excon’s caps.