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Superscript
Designer:Neil Summerour
Initial Release:2023
Styles:5
Available Writing Systems
Available Styles
ThinLightRegularMediumBold
OpenType Features
ON
K R Y g k y
Swashswsh
ON
a d g n y
Titling Alternatestitl
ON
1st 2nd 3rd
Ordinalsordn
ON
E G K a g y
Stylistic Set 1ss01
ON
L T i
Stylistic Set 2ss02
Specimens
Thin72px
Magnetohydrodynamics
Light72px
Hypercholestrolaemia
Regular72px
Compartmentalisation
Medium72px
Sphygmomanometer
Bold72px
Uncomprehendingly
Regular60px
Description
Superscript started as a personal challenge... simple as that. I had been doodling in a sketchbook with a sumi brush, focusing on very compressed, high-contrast, connected script letterforms. This type of doodle is usually a warm-up exercise.
Something from a set of exemplars clicked, so it slowly developed, out of whimsy, into the rough parts of a typeface. Then, it sat for two years. After that hiatus, the typeface, still very compressed but highly resolved, gained momentum. The fact that the typeface has multiple weights is Potch Auacherdkul's fault. He commented that it should have a thin weight. Potch is a jerk, but I started drawing, and the two of us completed that additional weight and the subsequent interpolations. He was right. It was totally worth it.
Supported Languages
Glyphs
U+0041 / A
Outlines
▼Latin Uppercase26
▼Latin Lowercase26
▼Latin Uppercase Accented137
▼Latin Lowercase Accented138
▼Numerals10
▼Currency7
▼Punctuation & Symbols63
▼Mathematical Symbols13
▼Alternates1
▼Standard Ligatures3
▼Ordinals10
▼Stylistic Set 01175
▼Stylistic Set 023
▼Stylistic Set 034
▼Swashes11
▼Titling Alternates18
This typeface contains a total of 645 glyphs
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