Maelstrom Sans
Klim Type Foundry · Kris Sowersby · 2019
A single-weight reversed-stress display sans of heavy horizontals and spindly diagonals, made for posters and identity rather than text.
About
A reversed-stress display sans by Kris Sowersby that flips weight onto the horizontals and starves the diagonals, giving it a fragile, almost splintering quality. Released as a single Bold cut, no italic, no other widths. Sits in the Maelstrom collection alongside the slab-serif Maelstrom and belongs to the genre Klim describe as a perpetual typographic outsider, never fashionable yet never abandoned.
Classification
Klim classifies it as a Reversed-Stress Sans Serif; an uneasy mix of heavy horizontals and spindly diagonals that feels fragile, like it could splinter at any moment. Sits in the Maelstrom collection alongside the slab-serif Maelstrom.