Forint – Contemporary Serif with Deliberate Imperfections Forint is a versatile Antiqua family in seven weights with matching Roman and Italic styles, designed for editorial work, cultural branding, packaging, and projects where typographic character matters as much as technical precision. What began as a small and imperfect source evolved into a complete typographic system. Forint transforms a historical accident into a contemporary design language, drawing on two distinct moments in Hungarian monetary history: the refined Renaissance proportions of the 14th-century Aranyforint (Gold Forint), and the crude, pressure-marked engravings of the 1947 Forint coin. The design process started with the irregular F O R I N T letterforms found on post-war coinage — characters shaped by urgency, material constraint, and technical limitation rather than typographic ideals. These so-called freak details — uneven strokes, unexpected angles, and physical imperfections — were not corrected or smoothed out. Instead, they became the structural tensions from which the entire family was developed. Subtle Renaissance proportions provide coherence and balance, while carefully retained irregularities introduce visual personality across all weights. This is not revival typography. Forint does not reconstruct historical forms; it expands fragmented sources into a contemporary serif system that feels intentional, usable, and expressive in modern contexts. Ideal for magazines, book design, visual identities for cultural institutions, high-end packaging, and projects that require a serif with substance and narrative depth.
Released in 2026. (Early release in 2021.)
Imperfect origins. Contemporary application.
