sans-serif · Velvetyne
Karrik
Jean-Baptiste Morizot and Lucas Le Bihan rooted Karrik in vernacular typography: the weight disadjustments, missing optical corrections and uneven letter widths of early sans-serifs are kept on purpose. The result reads raw and slightly clumsy at display sizes yet stays honest and legible in body copy, which is exactly the trick.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Jean-Baptiste Morizot & Lucas Le Bihan, 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.
Lora — a calm contemporary serif that lets Karrik's naive irregularities do the talking.
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 — engineered precision that contrasts Karrik's deliberate lack of correction.
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 sturdy editorial serif for long text under Karrik headings.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Karrik over Lora. 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.