ronotypo / minipax

A typeface for dystopias

Minipax

Minipax Weights

Minipax is a typeface inspired by the novel 1984, from George Orwell. It has been vaguely influenced by the skeleton of the font used in my edition of the book (printed in 84 !). But more importantly, it’s been designed to fit with the atmosphere of the Orwellian dystopia. And although Minipax remains a rather transparent text typeface, many of its distinctive features have been crafted to reflect de dusty and gritty universe of the novel.

The book

A page

Basic Glyphset

Full Glyphset

Big Brother's glyph

Development

Minipax is planned to be a quite extensive type family, with an italic cut coming pretty soon and a monowidth version hopefully done by the end of the year 2020. In the meantime, have fun with the upstraight version.

Design Quality

Glyphset: 5/5

• It should cover all latin languages.

Styles: 3/5

• Only 4 upstraignts now, but italic and monospace to come.

Drawing quality: 4/5

• Pretty good.

Spacing: 3/5

• OK

Kerning: 3/5

• Something like 600 pairs, no kerning on the diacritics and punctuation.

OT Features: 4/5

• Small caps, numerals, denominators, ordinals, old style figures...

Hinting: 2/5

• Automatic.

About the author

Raphaël Ronot is a french product designer by day, type designer by night.

Contact

Instagram Website

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is enclosed in this repository, and is also available with a FAQ at http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Repository Layout

This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3.

Publishing

This font is made exclusively available through the french open-source font foundry Velvetyne.fr.

minipax's Issues

Request to add digraph [ij] for Dutch

Hello,
First of all a big thank you for this very nice typography.
It seems to me that a digraph [ ij ] is missing, especially used for Dutch language I guess.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digramme)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_%28digraph%29