Ruta 02Detours / Rótulo
Rótulo
hand-painted, then made variable.
A typeface drawn from the shop signs and buses of Medellín. Type something. Make it loud.
Paint a sign
¡dale, escriba algo!
The letters
64 glyphs, all caps, every one pushed by hand. Tap a tile to see how it bends.
Ñ — eñe
Each row sweeps one axis from end to end while the others stay put, so the sliders make sense before you touch them.
A–Z
0–9
Acentos
Puntuación
Anatomy of an R
la letra, por dentro
Flat brush cut, square to the stroke. Where the painter lifted off.
The hole in the bowl. Stays open even at 900, so it never floods with paint.
Leans from the baseline, up to 12°. Like a sign painted in a hurry.
Not in the font. A painted block dropping down-right, as deep as you want.
One thin light line riding inside every stroke. Old-school shine.
The wobble axis. 0 is vinyl-cut. 100 is the end of a long day.
How it's made
Medellín talks in painted letters. Bakeries, barbers, the chiva rattling up the hill. Nobody measured anything, and it all looks better for it.
So I photographed the signs, traced the strokes, and rebuilt every letter as a single brush line. Then I gave that line four dials.
The wobble is on purpose. Mostly.
- Shoot the signs
- Trace the strokes
- Rebuild as skeletons
- Add four dials
Get the font
One variable file, four axes. Install the TTF for design apps, or use the WOFF2 on the web.
¡Súbase!