serif · Collletttivo
Sprat
Ethan Nakache drew Sprat from vintage lettering by Eric Gill, building it on two axes of width and weight with long pointed serifs and high contrast. At its lightest it turns angular and aggressive; at its heaviest it smooths out — a titling serif that still holds up at mid-size text in the middle weights.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Ethan Nakache, published by Collletttivo 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.
Inter — a neutral grotesque that carries body copy beneath Sprat's expressive titling.
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 friendly low-contrast sans that balances the sharp high-contrast display.
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 Sans — a clean UI companion for captions and metadata.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Sprat over Inter. 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.