Boxi
Heavyweight · Jan Horčík, Giorgia Demi, Jan Charvát · 2026
A display typeface derived from the improvised tape-and-knife letterforms found on repaired Spanish commercial signs, treating mild inconsistency as a deliberate formal quality.
About
Boxi descends from Heavyweight's Animo, which drew from Spanish rótulos signage, but pushes into more specific folk territory: the ad hoc repair of fallen plexiglass shop letters using tape, sometimes cut further with a craft knife. That improvisational gesture becomes the typeface's organising principle, with irregularity treated as a feature rather than a defect. Across 11 styles, 1,008 glyphs and support for 356 languages, it covers a wide range of use cases while retaining the rawness of its source material.
Classification
Boxi is a display typeface rooted in folk lettering tradition, specifically the improvised tape-and-knife repairs of fallen plexiglass shop signs in Spain. Its deliberate imperfection and mild inconsistency place it firmly in the vernacular display category.