Informations

Product of reinforced concrete and a soldering iron, Keyframe sports a monumental, architectural look. Its stems, linear and solid, were built to stay; the kind of construction that only the minuscule but repeated assaults of time could slowly begin to soften.

Keyframe is all about simplification, hints rather than definitions, like interpreting history from a few leftover traces. With regularity, often associated with such heavily constructed typefaces, broken by missing parts and unexpected extensions, words become like abstract decors, oscillating between hardness and fragility.



Family

5 styles

Release

2023

Notes on design
Music playlist
Trailer video


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5 styles

Thin

  

Light

  

Regular

  

Bold

  

Heavy

  
Animation by Elenor Kopka
Detail from the cover of “Jackie Mittoo, The Keyboard King at Studio One”
“One drop at a time” — Notes on the design of Keyframe
Bank erosion structures in sand (photo: The Cosmonaut, CC BY-SA 2.5 CA)

OpenType features

ABCABC
Borders & patterns (ss01)

ApogéeApogée

Closed lowercase forms (ss02)

DigitalDigital

Dotted forms (ss03)
120 ml120 ml
Tabular figures (tnum)

Ca. 1560Ca. 1560

Lining figures (lnum)

Meter3Meter3

Numerators (numr)

H2EAUH2EAU

Denominators (dnom)

Additional information

Design

Lucas Descroix

Font formats

OTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Glyph count

ca. 620 glyphs

Coverage

Extended Latin (incl. Vietnamese)

For more information on the character set and language coverage, please have a look at the PDF specimen.