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Pilowlava
Anton Moglia and Jérémy Landes made Pilowlava as a fast-paced creative feedback loop, each trying to surprise the other, and the result looks like cooled lava flows drawn with a compass. It is named after lava pillows — the glassy cushions formed when molten rock meets water — and balances viscous energy against controlled geometry.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Anton Moglia & Jérémy Landes, 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.
Space Grotesk — a techy sans whose quirks nod to Pilowlava without competing.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Inter — maximum neutrality to counter maximum lava.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
JetBrains Mono — a restrained mono for captions under molten headlines.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Pilowlava over Space Grotesk. 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.