Informations

Ready is not one for the passenger seat. This collection of display styles explores an asphyxiation of sense under an exuberance of the sign.
Marrying historical letterforms with the organic unpredictability of “reaction-diffusion” algorithms, Ready does more than flirting with abstraction: it tips over into becoming pure shapes, only sprinkled with a few hints of our long-established and codified writing system.



Family

9 styles

Release

2022

→ Mini-site
→ Notes on design
→ Lo-fi track


→ PDF Specimen

PDF Specimen [↘]
→ Type testers
→ OpenType features
→ Additional information
→ Character set
→ In use

9 styles

Active

Light

  

Regular

  

Bold

  

Bygone

Light

  

Regular

  

Bold

  

Clouded

Light

  

Regular

  

Bold

  
Giant pufferfish (photo: SimónK, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Turing pattern
“Tossing Lanterns” — Notes on the design of Ready
Notes on design as Lo-fi track (animation: Elenor Kopka)
Smoky Bracket (photo: Henk Monster, CC BY 3.0)

OpenType features

SECRET→SECRET
Borders & patterns (ss01)

A200→A200

Slashed zero (zero)

B7/8→B7/8

Pre-composed fractions (frac)

C4815→C4815

Superscript (sups)

D1623→D1623

Subscript (subs)

Additional information

Design

Lucas Descroix & Benjamin Dumond

Font formats

OTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Glyph count

ca. 370 glyphs

Coverage

Extended Latin, Emojis

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

In use

Mitski – ‘The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We‘
Mitski – ‘The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We‘
Hihats In Trees – ‘Artefacts’
Hihats In Trees – ‘Artefacts’
Le Ciel, Sep–Dec 2023
Le Ciel, Sep–Dec 2023
Edwin Antwerp store opening
Edwin Antwerp store opening
KINDHEIT(EN) exhibition
KINDHEIT(EN) exhibition
“Mater” exhibition
“Mater” exhibition