Typeface of the Month: Escalope

Escalope is a hand-drawn typeface with a unique personality due to its creative and informal appearance. The AllCaps and mixed-case style, the low midline, the matching icons, the fun and playful alternate characters, and many other features make it stand out from the rest.

Escalope has three sets of alphabets as part of the OpenType’s Contextual Alternates to ensure no characters are repeated. These alphabets follow one another so that when writing repeated characters other versions of the same glyph appear, each with its own irregular and crooked outlines. This makes this typeface different from the rest by creating a more realistic result.

In addition, this typeface has three Stylistic Sets and a variety of Stylistic Alternates, which give more visual interest to the type composition. These three decorative sets can be mixed to create infinite results. As MyFonts’ affirms, “You can mix and match them so that no two combinations will ever look the same, making this (Escalope) family eco-friendly.” (MyFonts’ Trending Newsletter, 2017)

This typeface had a complex creative process since the textures were part of an experimental exercise at the beginning of it all. The characters and icons where drawn by hand, and after that, these where scanned and vectorized from scratch in the font software. Once all glyphs were finished, they were arranged in different sheets, printed and scanned again to gain the photocopy texture. Nothing compares to real textures, right?

The strength of Escalope relies on its versatility. Besides the alternate sets and the large language support (+1,400 glyphs), this type family includes a set of 150 icons that are available in the same four textures. They share the weight and font characteristics for a perfect match.

Escalope was sketched, designed and programmed from October 2016 to January 2017, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was finally released on January 27th, 2017.

Escalope

Foundry: Antipixel
Designer: Julia Martinez Diana
Release: January 2017
Formats: otf, ttf
Weights: Escalope Crust One, Escalope Crust Two, Escalope Crust Three, Escalope Soft. + Icons: Escalope Crust One Icons, Escalope Crust Two Icons, Escalope Crust Three Icons, Escalope Soft Icons
Price: 98,– USD Complete Family, 15,– USD individual styles, 12,– USD individual icon sets
Buy