Crumbs

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A dash of nostalgia, plenty of nowness. Crumbs is a semi-condensed variable Sans-to-Serif design concept, with intermediate Semi style. Along with weight, Crumbs grows serifs too. Palpable theme for shape design is sharpness countered by tense curvature. Aimed at bigger sizes, it’s proportions and details work together to create memorable headlines and shorter paragraphs of text.

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Crumbs

Design Concept

A dash of nostalgia, plenty of nowness. Crumbs is a semi-condensed variable Sans-to-Serif design concept, with intermediate Semi style. Along with weight, Crumbs grows serifs too. Palpable theme for shape design is sharpness countered by tense curvature. Aimed at bigger sizes, it’s proportions and details work together to create memorable headlines and shorter paragraphs of text.

PDF Specimen

The PDF contains information, specimens of the type including further settings of more languages, features, character sets, all in one document. If you’re a bit old school you can even print it. Download it here.

Design notes

So, Crumbs started out as a lettering project, a logo for a small business. This time around it wasn’t me setting forth the directions, but the client—my girlfriend—pointed at De Vinne and said, “Something like this!” “Aight, we can do that,” I replied, “give me, like, half an hour.” The logo came out great, something I might’ve never done otherwise if it weren’t for her—plus, the business side was on the up and up as well. Besides, we’re still together, so you can add that to the plethora of good news. 

Good old draw until you know approach in early days of Crumbs 🤓

These were just a couple of uppercase letters that read “CRUMBS,” and were roughly inspired by De Vinne Double Extra Condensed. As revivals are usually not my knack, things deliberately took a different turn, one where shapes are rather reimagined than redrawn. Emphasizing sharpness countered by tense curvature soon became a palpable theme. Before long, words started to resemble a promising titling face, which is why it felt only natural to expand the project so it might become more of a versatile tool than just a cool, albeit single-style creation.

Serifs are hidden in Sans style ✖️
Serifs are visible in Serif style ✔️

The number of details going on in the Black style got me thinking about what would happen if all of that were translated into a light, elegant Sans Serif? I was thinking about hiding all the spiky serifs from there, whilst trying not to compromise the whole thing. The Sans experiment turned out surprisingly fresh, and so did the interpolated Semi, halfway between these two opposing styles. And that’s it—that’s the family right here in front of you, primarily imagined as a variable font aimed at bigger sizes.

Modern day catchword lockups inspired by wood type era. Just a little extra zing.
Any decimal ending with 0 or 9 can automatically be switched into a lockup 💸

Inside Crumbs you will find many extras that take title typesetting to the next level. An additional built-in style, something we call “Mid Caps,” is a set of caps that pairs nicely in between or right before regular-sized words. There are also copious catchword lockups, inspired by the wood type era to mix ‘n match across various styles. The last extra push to help this typeface become commercially lucrative was including an array of glyphs that depict cats in all their silly little feline positions. 

Her LayZ majesty. Photo probably taken on a Monday.
Sketches for lazy cat dingbats clearly inspired by real life events.

Language Support

Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Aranese, Araona, Aromanian, Aymara, Ayoreo, Azeri (Latin), Basque, Bemba, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cavineña, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Chichewa, Chokwe, Chuukese, Cofán, Comorian, Cornish, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Ganda, German, Gikuyu, Greenlandic, Guaraní, Gwich’in, Haitian, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Javanese, Karelian, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Kituba, Kongo, Kurdish, Kwanyama, Ladin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luba-Kasai, Luxemburgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maninka, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Marshallese, Montenegrin, Náhuatl, Nauruan, Navajo, Ndebele (Northern), Ndebele (Southern), Norn, Norwegian, Nyanja, Occitan, Oromo, Otomi, Palauan, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romani, Romanian, Sámi (Inari), Sámi (Lule), Sámi (Northern), Sámi (Southern), Sango, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Seychelles Creole, Shona, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali (Latin), Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino), Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Twi, Umbundu, Venda, Veps, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu.

Credits & details

Year published: 2022
Type design: Marko Hrastovec
Font mastering: Nikola Djurek
Cover artwork: Andrej Todorovski
Text: Krešimir Bobaš

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