Farop (short for Fanning a Ream of Paper) is an inline display type family that employs non-rhythmic stroke widths, layered overlays, and unconventional alignments to create a distinctive multi-lined aesthetic. It deliberately breaks away from traditional typographic conventions by disregarding standard baselines in favour of chunky, brutalist letterforms and self-determined vertical positioning.
Farop Freestyle (shown here) is composed of eight coloured layers, each manipulating the glyphs with differently coloured stripes. It serves as a visual reference for the wide range of styles that can be achieved with the Farop family, while also functioning as a ready-to-use colour font for bold, maximalist inline typography.
The complete Farop type family, including five individual weights (Farop 1 to 5), Farop Freestyle, and Farop Stack (the original monochromatic gradient variant), is available to download for free at fauxicing.com.
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The entire Farop font family can be downloaded for free at fauxicing.com! Please do read up on the Font Usage Guide if you are unsure on how to use the fonts together.
A lovely experiment! A little hard to read in some places, (the “Y” in particular is quite confusing) but with such a small grid, it’s more than forgivable. Fun samples, too.
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@Gr4ftY: Thanks! I originally made this coloured font in order to show the different variation of styles one can use Farop to do. The release of it as a standalone font is just a bonus. ;). I did intend for the typeface to suffer to a degree in terms of legibility in exchange for a whacky brutalist look.
Such great experimentation. Nice color palette too.
Visited your website and read the article on Monotype. Well researched and a good read. Thanks.
@ex: Thank you for your kind comments! Glad you enjoyed the article. ^_^
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