Designer: Francesco CanovaroFrancesco Canovaro created Bakemono as a way to explore the style area around the duality of fixed/proportional width. He was also interested in the principle of monowidth design, inherent in monospaced typefaces, that can bring versatility and ease of use also to proportional type - enabling you to change the weight of a word without losing the text alignment. In his research on repaired width type design he blended the lessons of mechanical typewriter technology with the intuitions of eastern brush calligraphy, which has been dealing with for centuries with fixed area grids.
The name of the typeface originates from the Japanese shape-shifter yokais that might change their kind easily between human and animal, and aptly describes the metamorphic nature of this broad superfamily being available in proportional, monospace and intermediate subfamilies. With a style mixing the growth principles of the brush with the sharp technicality of typewriter and system fonts, Bakemono can both stand out at text size in its routine widths enhanced for legibility in addition to owning the page at screen size with its unusual design details.
Bakemono reflects its multicultural nature with its extended latin + cyrillic charset, quickly to be expanded with Bakemono Arabic (checking out the fascinating world of monospaced arabic script) and Bakemono Kana (our very first experiment in cjk scripts).
- Suggested utilizes: born to allow you to alter the weight of a word without losing the text positioning, Bakemono can both excel at text size in its regular widths optimised for legibility along with owning the page at display screen size with its unusual style details. Perfect for modern branding, website design, packaging and numerous other jobs;
- 21 styles: 7 weights x 3 various designs + 1 variable font style;
- 839 glyphs in each weight;
- Useful OpenType functions: Gain access to All Alternates, Contextual Alternates, Case-Sensitive Types, Glyph Composition/ Decay, Denominators, Portions, Localized Types, Mark Positioning, Mark to Mark Positioning, Alternate Annotation Forms, Numerators, Ordinals, Scientific Inferiors, 7 Stylistic Sets, Subscript, Superscript, Slashed Zero
- 217 languages supported (extended Latin and Cyrillic alphabets): English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Javanese (Latin), Vietnamese, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Afaan Oromo, Azeri, Tagalog, Sundanese (Latin), Filipino, Moldovan, Romanian, Indonesian, Dutch, Cebuano, Igbo, Malay, Uzbek (Latin), Kurdish (Latin), Swahili, Hungarian, Czech, Haitian Creole, Hiligaynon, Afrikaans, Somali, Zulu, Serbian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Shona, Quechua, Albanian, Catalan, Chichewa, Ilocano, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Neapolitan, Xhosa, Tshiluba, Slovak, Danish, Gikuyu, Finnish, Norwegian, Sicilian, Sotho (Southern), Kirundi, Tswana, Sotho (Northern), Belarusian (Latin), Turkmen (Latin), Bemba, Lombard, Lithuanian, Tsonga, Wolof, Jamaican, Dholuo, Galician, Ganda, Low Saxon, Waray-Waray, Makhuwa, Bikol, Kapampangan (Latin), Aymara, Ndebele, Slovenian, Tumbuka, Venetian, Genoese, Piedmontese, Swazi, Zazaki, Latvian, Nahuatl, Silesian, Bashkir (Latin), Sardinian, Estonian, Afar, Cape Verdean Creole, Maasai, Occitan, Tetum, Oshiwambo, Basque, Welsh, Chavacano, Dawan, Montenegrin, Walloon, Asturian, Kaqchikel, Ossetian (Latin), Zapotec, Frisian, Guadeloupean Creole, Q'eqchi', Karakalpak (Latin), Crimean Tatar (Latin), Sango, Luxembourgish, Samoan, Maltese, Tzotzil, Fijian, Friulian, Icelandic, Sranan, Wayuu, Papiamento, Aromanian, Corsican, Breton, Amis, Gagauz (Latin), Māori, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Alsatian, Atayal, Kiribati, Seychellois Creole, Võro, Tahitian, Scottish Gaelic, Chamorro, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Kashubian, Faroese, Rarotongan, Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Karelian (Latin), Romansh, Chickasaw, Arvanitic (Latin), Nagamese Creole, Saramaccan, Ladin, Kaingang, Palauan, Sami (Northern Sami), Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Drehu, Wallisian, Aragonese, Mirandese, Tuvaluan, Xavante, Zuni, Montagnais, Hawaiian, Marquesan, Niuean, Yapese, Vepsian, Bislama, Hopi, Megleno-Romanian, Creek, Aranese, Rotokas, Tokelauan, Mohawk, Onĕipŏt, Warlpiri, Cimbrian, Sami (Lule Sami), Jèrriais, Arrernte, Murrinh-Patha, Kala Lagaw Ya, Cofán, Gwich' in, Seri, Sami (Southern Sami), Istro-Romanian, Wik-Mungkan, Anuta, Cornish, Sami (Inari Sami), Yindjibarndi, Noongar, Hotcąk (Latin), Meriam Mir, Manx, Shawnee, Gooniyandi, Ido, Wiradjuri, Hän, Ngiyambaa, Delaware, Potawatomi, Abenaki, Esperanto, Folkspraak, Interglossa, Interlingua, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Lojban, Novial, Occidental, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Slovio (Latin), Volapük
Font Family:
· Bakemono Mono Thin
· Bakemono Mono ExtraLight
· Bakemono Mono Light
· Bakemono Mono Regular
· Bakemono Mono Medium
· Bakemono Mono Bold
· Bakemono Mono Extrabold
· Bakemono Stereo Thin
· Bakemono Stereo ExtraLight
· Bakemono Stereo Light
· Bakemono Stereo Regular
· Bakemono Stereo Medium
· Bakemono Stereo Bold
· Bakemono Stereo Extrabold
· Bakemono Text Thin
· Bakemono Text ExtraLight
· Bakemono Text Light
· Bakemono Text Regular
· Bakemono Text Medium
· Bakemono Text Bold
· Bakemono Text Extrabold
· Bakemono Variable
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