Originally designed for use in the long-form journalism magazine Reportagen. For the retail release it was expanded into three subfamilies; GT Sectra, GT Sectra Fine, and GT Sectra Display, each spanning 5 weights plus italics.
Support for Cyrillic, Greek, and Vietnamese was added in Oct. 2020. Consultation: Maria Doreuli (Cyrillic), Vassilis Georgiou (Greek), and Donny Truong (Vietnamese).