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Trickster
Jean-Baptiste Morizot named Trickster after the mythological figure who uses secret knowledge to disobey normal rules — a fitting patron for its unusual shapes, tight spacing and army of alternates. It behaves like a blackletter that wandered into a science-fiction novel and decided to stay.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire. Its web woff2 was converted from the foundry's TTF — same outlines, wrapped smaller for the web.
Credit & license
Drawn by Jean-Baptiste Morizot, 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.
Inter — total neutrality so Trickster's occult geometry reads clearly.
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 — a systematic mono that frames the rule-breaking display face.
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 — an even-keeled serif for body text beneath arcane titling.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Trickster 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.