“Hand Sketch Rough Poster” is a handmade, rough and dirty sans-serif display font for decorative headline sizes. Hand drawn. A–Z (× 2), a–z (× 2) and 0–9 (× 4) are each many different forms. Contextual alternates. Is intended to show the hand-made character and the vibrancy of the display font. The different forms of roughness creates a liveliness in the typeface.
Standard ligatures like ae, oe, AE, OE, ff, fl, fi, fj, ffl, ffi, ffj and more decorative ligatures like CT, LC, LE, LH, LI, LO, LU, LY, TOO, TC, TE, TH, TU, TZ and ch, cl, ck, ct, sh, sk, st, sp, additional logotypes like BPM, fff, ppp, sfz and many more … plus Versal Eszett (Capital Letter Double S) give the font more life and shows that despite their retro-looks works with modern OpenType technology (type the word note for the symbol ♫ and the word love for the dingbat ❤ … ). Symbols like play, stop, eject, forward, backward, skip, pause and so on. The topic for the discretionary ligatures and the symbols are music.
Have fun with this font – turn up the volume!
Application Area
The ruff font would look good at headlines. Turn up the volume – set it big! Editorial Design (Magazine or Fanzine) or Webdesign (Headline Webfont for your website), party flyer, movie poster, music poster, music covers or webbanner …
How To Use – awesome magic OpenType-Features in your layout application
■ In Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign, font feature controls are within the Character panel sub-menu → OpenType → Discretionary Ligatures …
Checked features are applied/on. Unchecked features are off.
■ In Adobe Illustrator, font feature controls are within the OpenType panel.
Icons at the bottom of the panel are button controls. Darker ‘pressed’ buttons are applied/on.
■ Additionally in Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator, alternate glyphs can manually be inserted into a text frame by using the glyphs panel. The panel can be opened by selecting Window from the menu bar → Type → Glyphs. Or use sign-overview of your operating system.
■ It may process a little bit slowly in some applications, because the font has a lot of lovely rough details (anchor points).
Technical Specifications
■ Font Name: Hand Sketch Rough Poster
■ Font Weights: Regular
■ Fonts Category: Display for Headline Size
■ Desktop-Font Format: OTF (OpenType Font for Mac + Win) + TTF (TrueType Font)
■ Web-Font Format: SVG + EOT + TTF + WOF
■ Font License: Desktop license, Web license, App license, eBook license, Server license
■ Glyph coverage: 715
■ Language Support: Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arapaho, Aromanian, Arrernte, Asturian, Aymara, Basque, Belarusian (Lacinka), Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Chichewa (Nyanja), Cimbrian, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Fijian, Finnish, French, French Creole (Saint Lucia), Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Genoese, German, Gilbertese (Kiribati), Greenlandic, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hmong, Hopi, Hungarian, Ibanag, Iloko (Ilokano), Indonesian, Interglossa (Glosa), Interlingua, Irish (Gaelic), Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jèrriais, Kashubian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgian, Malagasy, Malay (Latinized), Maltese, Manx, Maori, Megleno-Romanian, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Norfolk/Pitcairnese, Northern Sotho (Pedi), Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Romansh (Rumantsch), Rotokas, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Samoan, Sardinian (Sardu), Scots (Gaelic), Seychellois Creole (Seselwa), Shona, Sicilian, Slovak, Slovenian (Slovene), Somali, Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho (Sesotho), Spanish, Swahili, Swati/Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino/Pilipino), Tahitian, Tausug, Tetum (Tetun), Tok Pisin, Tongan (Faka-Tonga), Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Turkmen (Latinized), Tuvaluan, Uyghur (Latinized), Veps, Volapük, Votic (Latinized), Walloon, Warlpiri, Welsh, Xhosa, Yapese, Zulu
■ Specials: Alternative letters, logotypes, dingbats & symbols, accents & €. OpenType-Features like Access All Alternates (aalt), Contextual Alternates (calt), Glyph Composition/Decomposition (ccmp), Discretionary Ligatures (dlig) Denominators (dnom), Fractions (frac), Kerning (kern), Standard Ligatures (liga), Lining Figures (lnum), Numerators (numr), Old Style Figures (onum) Ordinals (ordn), Proportional Figures (pnum), Stylistic Alternates (salt), Stylistic Set 01 (ss01), Stylistic Set 02 (ss02), Stylistic Set 03 (ss03), Stylistic Set 04 (ss04), Superscript (sups), Tabular Figures (tnum)
■ Design Date: 2015
■ Type Designer: Manuel Viergutz