Hot pigment, cool metal, letters with a pulse.
An independent type foundry for people who set headlines out loud. Every family ships variable — drag the axes until it flinches.
Kiln Display
Our first release: a pigment-heavy display serif with a wonk knob that lets the letterforms misbehave just enough. Four axes, two optical grades, no apologies.
SOFT 0–100 · WONK 0–1
High-contrast serifs with ball terminals the size of embers. Set it at 144pt and watch the counters open like a furnace door.
Try it in the lab →Drawn, not slanted. Calligraphic ligatures, a lazy s, and an e that never quite closes.
Try it in the lab →The quiet partner: grotesque bones, slightly warm joins. Holds its shape from 8px captions to 8m billboards.
Try it in the lab →For captions, receipts, and code you actually read. Slashed zero included, because integrity.
Try it in the lab →Pull the levers.
A taste of the full lab — type directly into the specimen and feel the weight change under your hands.
We started the foundry with two presses, one shared kettle, and a stubborn belief that headlines should have weather. Kiln Display took fourteen months and four funerals for four drafts that were merely good.
Everything here is variable-first and licensed without lawyers lurking. You drag the axes, the letters answer.
- Release
- Vol. 01 — Kiln Display, four axes
- Formats
- Variable TTF · WOFF2 · static cuts
- Studio
- Two humans, one cat named Ledger
- Promise
- No upsells inside the font file. Ever.