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Chunk
Meredith Mandel drew Chunk (ChunkFive) for The League of Moveable Type, America's first open-source type foundry, as an ultra-bold slab serif channeling old American Western woodcuts, broadsides and newspaper headlines. It is a one-weight wonder built purely for display work that needs to shout.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Meredith Mandel, published by The League of Moveable Type 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.
Source Serif 4 — a level-headed text serif under the woodcut shout.
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 — an unfussy sans that keeps the Western slab from feeling costume.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
IBM Plex Mono — typewriter-adjacent texture that suits broadside layouts.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Chunk over Source Serif 4. 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.