POPULAIRE

Populaire is a hand-drawn font that mimics true handcrafted lettering. Counting 4 glyphs for each letter, its laborious kerning table ensures the glyphs are truly exchangeable. Yet, there’s a cool set of ornaments and a kind-of-magic OpenType feature. When this font is used in OpenType savvy applications, its Contextual Alternates feature produce a striking random-like effect on glyphs distribution, achieved by cycling through alternates. When not using the Contextual Alternates feature, you can still pick the alternates in the Glyphs palette or just use the two alternates available direct from the keyboard upper and lower case. Inspired by the electrifying posters from May 1968 produced by Atelier Populaire, this dynamic font is flexible enough to bring freshness and energy to a wide range of design applications.