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Basteleur
Keussel designed Basteleur with the Tarot de Marseille in mind — the card of Le Bateleur stands for new beginnings, fun and craft, but also the struggle to finish projects. The result is a funny blend of medieval and Cooper-Black-ish warmth, and a 2022 anniversary update added the lighter, sharper Moonlight cut alongside the original soft bold.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Keussel, published by Velvetyne under the OFL-1.1 Open Font License. You can use it, freely. Get the files.
Pairs well with
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Work Sans — a plain geometric-humanist sans that lets the tarot warmth glow.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Lora — a contemporary serif that supports mystical headlines with sober text.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Space Grotesk — modern quirk that keeps the pairing playful rather than antique.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Basteleur over Work Sans. Where they agree the strokes merge; where they argue, fringes.
“Hamburgefonstiv” is the type designer's test word — it carries most of the shapes that give a face away.