Kervo / Study 02

Kervo: Take up space. — large typographic cover

02 / Font information

Study 02 · v0.101

Heavy. Direct. Loud.

A compact, heavy display face with asymmetric counters, broad diagonal terminals and deliberately open apertures. Continuous joins and squared inner turns carry its horizontal emphasis into the diagonal letters. Lowercase input maps to capitals.

01Caps-only drawing
02Asymmetric counters
03Broad diagonal terminals
04Open C and G apertures

Style: Black
Version: 0.101
Glyphs: 187
Encoded characters: 302
Cap height: 800 units
X-height: Caps only
Spacing: Proportional / pair kerning
Formats: OTF / TTF / WOFF2

One working master. Unhinted; no italic, variable axes or combining-mark positioning. Lowercase input maps to capital drawings.

03 / Character set

296 visible encoded characters

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡£¥©®°·¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿĀāĂăĄąĆćĈĉĊċČčĎďĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğĠġĢģĤĥĨĩĪīĬĭĮįİĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńŅņŇňŌōŎŏŐőŒœŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšŢţŤťŨũŪūŬŭŮůŰűŲųŴŵŶŷŸŹźŻżŽžẀẁẂẃẄẅỲỳ–—‘’“”•…€™−

The full mapped character set, excluding spaces. Capital and lowercase codepoints share drawings.

04 / A change of scale

144 → 12 px

Type your own line Kerning

144 px

96 px

72 px

48 px

36 px

24 px

18 px

12 px

05 / Dense poster

A page of presence

A dense typographic composition in Kervo

06 / Glyphs view

Select a character

07 / Font in use

An imagined late-night event

An imagined application, made to explore the typeface.