A Hand-Drawn Font
Mota Italic · Rob Keller
An 11-weight handwritten display family grown from personal sketchbook markings, with artist-inspired alternates and built-in decorative features for expressive typography.
About
Originating from the everyday handwriting of an unnamed artist marking tools and sketchbooks, the family was developed over two years into 11 weights with matching italics and 1,788 glyphs per font. Alongside the core alphabet, it includes alternate letterforms referencing the handwriting of artists such as Calder, Kahlo and Basquiat, plus arrows, symbols and decorative underlines. A mostly monospaced skeleton provides structural consistency while deliberate spacing irregularities and hand-drawn quirks keep the texture lively and unpredictable.
Classification
A heavily expressive, multi-weight handwritten family with monospaced underpinnings and wild italics; best classed as display due to its theatrical character and explicit rejection of neutrality.