THEATRE ROYAL
The
Wonk
Season
SEPT — DEC · MERIDIAN DISPLAY
An independent type foundry
VERSO
Three families. Infinite axes.
Letters with a pulse — drawn, spaced & hinted in house.
Move your cursor through the wordmark ↑
01
Meridian
A warm, slightly wonky serif drawn for headlines that flirt. Nine optical sizes, from whisper-thin captions to full theatrical bellow.
4 AXES112 STYLESLATIN EXT.
Rhubarb & Quince
R
U+0052 · LATIN CAPITAL R — click any cell
02
Circuit
A living monospace that loosens its tie after hours. One axis slides it from strict terminal to loose handwriting — code to conversation.
5 AXES64 STYLESCODE LIGS
while (alive) learn();
The same letters, sober —
halfway out the door,
and gone dancing.
03
Elastic
A grotesque that refuses a fixed width. Compressed to expanded in one continuous gesture — whisper to shout, one file.
3 AXES81 STYLESSET WIDE
STRETCH
← drag your cursor across →
04
Try the fonts
Type something beautiful
05
In use
$ man circuit
grep
-i
"soul"
EXIT 0 · CIRCUIT MONO
GALERIE OST
WIDE
AWAKE
till late
OPEN 22—06 · ELASTIC
VERSO draws letters that speak before they are read. We believe a typeface is an instrument — it should hold a note at any weight, any width, any temperament. Every family ships as a single variable file with its axes left honest and open.
— THE FOUNDRY, ROTTERDAM