SwingKing
Ivy Foundry · Jan Maack, Erik Sørensen
A casual sans drawn from the hand lettering of Danish illustrator Erik Sørensen, digitised and refined by Jan Maack, with an extensive companion icon set.
About
Jan Maack collaborated with Erik Sørensen, a Danish illustrator who spent decades unable to find a typeface that matched his comic strip aesthetic, to produce this digitised and polished casual sans. The result sits between cartoonish and handwritten without committing to either, making it usable for a range of informal applications. A dedicated Icons font adds dozens of symbols, pictograms and emojis that extend the family's expressive range.
Classification
SwingKing is a casual sans-serif drawn from hand-lettered sources and digitised for typographic use; its illustrative origins and accompanying icon set place it firmly in the display category rather than a workhorse sans.