Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, TypeType Foundry has earned a reputation for offering a wide range of type designs in varied styles that consistently carry extensive flexibility and broad multilingual support. To meet the needs of graphic designers around the world, the team works hard to ensure every new concept and design fulfills a typographical need in an innovative way.
Established by Ivan Gladkikh and Alexander Kudryavtsev in 2013, TypeType’s work emphasizes cultural diversity and it is reflected in type design. While it grew from modest roots in the early days, the foundry has expanded to work with a number of designers and typographers over the years.
Today, TypeType offers dozens of type designs that include a little bit of everything, covering a broad range of text and display applications in the design workspace. Their subsidiary foundry, TypeType LLC, continues to expand its own portfolio of experimental type designs on YouWorkForThem. One of their most recent releases is TT Geekette, a decorative serif with a playful tone.
Designed by Vika Usmanova, TT Geekette breaks away from many of TypeType’s more minimalist and geometric designs, preferring “to experiment with the smoothness, softness, and plasticity of forms.”
To that end, traditional writing techniques were not at play in the development of this type family. Every loop and artistic detail of TT Geekette’s letterforms were specifically built and drawn to allow its style to emerge organically. “There are several systemic techniques in font design,” they said in reference to the loops, “which set the plastic rhythm for the entire typeface.”
The result is a bouncy monospaced serif design with subtle cursive-like details that instantly capture the viewer’s attention.
TT Geekette is available in three styles that include Bones, Muscles, and Variable.
TT Geekette Bones is a lightweight variant that presents the base architecture in all its glory. Thin strokes put every curl and artistic flair on full display and it works beautifully on its own or in tandem with its heavier sibling.
TT Geekette Muscles is a reverse contrast variant that’s a lot thicker through the curves, accentuating the structure of each character. Both Muscles and Bones are well suited to everything from displays and signage to headlines, advertising, logos, album artwork, book covers, posters, website headings, apparel, merchandise, and marketing materials.
TT Geekette Variable offers a completely flexible font that slides between both extremes: Bones and Muscles. If your design platform supports variable fonts, this type design will provide you with the greatest amount of flexibility in your workflow.
(If you’re not sure whether your platform supports variable fonts, you can check that out here.)
The TT Geekette family offers a number of additional features through OpenType, including contextual alternates, case sensitive forms, fractions, ordinals, superscript, and oldstyle figures. It extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, and Basic Cyrillic for fantastic global accessibility.
TypeType LLC currently offers three products through YouWorkForThem, providing a collection of experimental type designs to suit design projects of all kinds. Visit their portfolio to check out the rest of their work and if you love what you find there, bookmark it so you can check back for new releases in the future!
