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Chromatic Fonts

David Sudweeks
Last edited October 23, 2017

Chromatic types are sets of fonts designed to stack one on top of another allowing a single character to be set in multiple colors. See our blog posts on the subject for an introduction to the type genre and help with how to make it work.


jungle
illustrative
Beware of explosive dogs

One of Berlin’s must-visit cultural stops is the Prater, a beer garden in Prenzlauer Berg, a district in the eastern part of Berlin. The Prater easily has one of the most unique graphic identities in the city, completely handmade by artist-illustrator Henning Wagenbreth. The alphabets created by Wagenbreth became the starting point for a refreshing type family, FF Prater. To convincingly... Read More

mystic
japanophilia
Houston, we have a problem

Add custom inline color, multiple shadow styles and layering to dress up this quirky typeface.

Trend is a typeface made of layers, taking as a basis a sans and a slab version. It is the result of observation, search and study of the... Read More

grapes
guitarfishes
Go on with your bad self

Trend Slab is Trend’s comfortable, generously-spaced slabby brother.

Trend is a typeface made of layers, taking as a basis a sans and a slab version. It is the result of observation, search and study of the... Read More

safety
bureaucratic
Keep table cleaned after dying

Jos Buivenga’s delicate romantic type is made to set with multiple outlines and fills. Geotica One is the lightest of the set. Four is the heaviest.

rocket
abstractions
Dog pawprints on your clothes

Ademo is a classic, shaded and perspective looking display font. The design is based on two typefaces designed by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt and published between 1931– 1932 by the German Schriftguss AG type foundry. Ademos special Fill fonts can be used for building multi colored text or for special finishing needs like blind imaging, embossing, stamping, partial UV coating and laser cutting.

safety
fiddlesticks
Throw mischievous cook the sauce

Grippo is a fat, fun original with broad inlines, outlines and shadows.

Sabina Chipara
Monotype 2017
Jeremy Dooley
insigne 2013
Mika Melvas
Melvastype 2015
Steffen Sauerteig and Henning Wagenbreth
FontFont 2000
Jorge Cisterna and Rodrigo Fuenzalida
Latinotype 2016
Hannes von Döhren
HVD Fonts
Michael Doret
Alphabet Soup 2006

FaceType
Sale
Daniel Hernández and Paula Nazal Selaive
Latinotype 2013
Sale
Daniel Hernández and Paula Nazal Selaive
Latinotype 2013
Jos Buivenga
exljbris
Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt and Andreas Seidel
astype 1931

Canada Type

Canada Type
Hannes von Döhren
HVD Fonts 2009
John Roshell
Comicraft
John Roshell
Comicraft
John Roshell
Comicraft
John Roshell and Richard Starkings
Comicraft 2010
John Roshell and Richard Starkings
Comicraft 2010
John Roshell
Comicraft
John Roshell
Comicraft