Based in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Hendra Maulia established Dirtyline Studio in 2015. With a fondness for hand lettering and beautifully crafted type designs, Dirtyline Studio specializes in lettering that is “made with love and passion,” offering custom fonts for individual design projects and a variety of retail fonts for logos, product packaging, t-shirts, and more.
Much of Dirtyline Studios’ work is focused on expressive script designs that are perfect for branding and identity projects, apparel and logo designs. Their most recent addition, Metafora Sans, is a strong and dramatic all-caps sans serif that breaks away from their typical work.
Featuring bold architecture that can stand up to just about anything, Metafora Sans is a heavy display font available in 13 weights to suit a wide range of projects. Tall and narrow lettering makes the most of limited horizontal space, yet Metafora Sans also offers a few expanded letter sets that carry a much wider stance for added drama.
If you’re looking for a solid sans serif with crystal clear legibility and a lot of flexibility, Metafora Sans is the go-to family to have on hand. Metafora Sans Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, and even Medium, are ideal for projects that need a slightly condensed all-caps type design to take center stage. For headline, display, and signage, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold, and Black are stellar contenders.
For the boldest of the bold, look no further than Metafora Sans Black Semi Expanded, Black Extra Expanded, and Black Ultra Expanded. This trio offers some heavy-handed sans serif typography with a voice that speaks in loud and clear tones.
Each weight in the Metafora Sans family offers corresponding oblique letter sets for added versatility and emphasis. The range of weights available with Metafora Sans makes this family an excellent choice for everything from headlines to subheadings, advertising, magazine layouts, logo design, branding, identity, posters, book covers, album art, product packaging, presentations, website designs, apparel, merchandise, and even social media imagery.
Metafora Sans offers alternate glyphs for additional flexibility and its multilingual support extends to Basic Latin, Euro, and Western European languages for global accessibility.
Dirtyline Studio currently offers nine products through YouWorkForThem, including a variety of absolutely beautiful script display fonts to suit a wide range of design projects. Visit their portfolio to check out the rest of their work and if you love what you find there, bookmark it so you can keep an eye on new releases as they arrive!
