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Compagnon
Five students at EESAB Rennes mined the online archives of the Typewriter Database to build Compagnon, a five-style family in which each cut channels a different era of typewriter lettering. Roman, Italic, Medium, Bold and a looping Script each had their own designer, making it a genuinely collective typewriter revival.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Juliette Duhé, Léa Pradine, Valentin Papon, Chloé Lozano & Sébastien Riollier, 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 modern sans that lets the typewriter texture read as intentional.
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 — techy curves that echo Compagnon's mechanical origins.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Inter — a neutral UI sans for interfaces with typewriter-flavored editorial content.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Compagnon 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.