Sweathearts
Abyme · Martin Groch · 2022
An illustrative dingbat font by Martin Groch in which each of the 26 character slots contains a drawn figure rather than a letter, populated by a cast of surreal and darkly comic entities.
About
Rather than letterforms, Sweathearts delivers 26 illustrated characters: a duck, a vampire, a Wall Street shark, a detective and others, each assigned to a key. Drawn by Martin Groch and released in 2022, the font leans into a Twilight Zone sensibility of unexplained dread and dark humour, with ligature-like interactions occurring when certain figures are placed adjacent to one another. Available in a single style, it offers no trial version given its illustrative nature.
Classification
Sweathearts is explicitly comprised of illustrations rather than letters, functioning as a pictorial or dingbat font where each character slot contains a drawn figure or creature rather than a typographic glyph. It sits squarely in the display/illustrative category.