Hagrid Font

Hagrid

Font

Hagrid

Author

Zetafonts

Fonts

4

Added

Nov 24, 2019

Description

Author's note

The font here is for PERSONAL/NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY!

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https://www.zetafonts.com/hagrid

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Crypto-typography - the passion for unknown, weird, and unusual character shapes - is a disease commonly affecting type designers. Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini has celebrated it in this typeface family, aptly named Hagrid after the half-blood giant with a passion for cryptozoology described by J.K. Rowling in her Harry Potter books. Extreme optical corrections, calligraphic counter-spaces, inverted contrast, over-the-top overshoots: all the inventions that abound in vernacular and experimental typography have been lovingly collected in this mongrel sans serif family, carefully balancing quirky solutions and solid grotesque design.

Hagrid is a typeface designed for editorial and display use, bringing dynamism to the printed and digital page thanks to its extreme contrast and unique details. It has been developed in a range of six display weights, ranging from the monolinear and more traditional thin to the expressive heavy weight. For better readability in small sizes and on the web, a companion text family has been developed, with a slightly different selection of weights, wider metrics, and fine adjustments to keep the dynamic expressivity of the design without sacrificing legibility. This is evident in the design of italics: while the display italics sport a cursive feel with calligraphic terminals to lowercase letters, the text design is more restrained, with a more classical geometric grotesque slanted look.

The typeface has been designed with an extended character set, covering over two hundred languages that use Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets, and includes a selected range of OpenType features to handle alternate forms and stylistic sets.