Router
MCKL · Jeremy Mickel · 2008
A sans-serif drawn from the motion of a rotating engraver, with deliberate stroke swells at start and stop points that give it a mechanical personality unlike any standard geometric.
About
Jeremy Mickel designed Router in 2008, taking the characteristic swelling that a routing tool leaves when it enters and exits a cut and turning that artefact into the typeface's defining feature. The result sits somewhere between a geometric sans and an industrial signage letter, with a quiet but unmistakable quirk in each stroke terminal. Twelve styles across six weights with matching italics, small caps and case-sensitive punctuation round out a family that works from display sizes down to modest text. Selected for the Graphic Design: Now in Production exhibition at the Walker Art Center and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Classification
Router is a sans-serif with a distinctive mechanical quality drawn from engraving tool movement, producing subtle stroke swells at terminals that give it a geometric yet tool-derived character.