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Swear specimen from OH no Type

A high-contrast serif spanning four optical sizes and six weights, with a reverse italic called Cilati as a second emphasis option alongside a conventional italic.

About

Swear runs from Text to Banner across 72 styles, combining Romans, Italics and the inverted 'Cilati' cuts into a full system for everything from running copy to large-format headings. The extreme contrast came from flat-brush practice, with exterior serifs pushed to razor thinness and interior serifs kept deliberately large to manage spacing on letters like A and V. Variable fonts for each of the three stylistic axes are included with the complete package.

Classification

Swear is a high-contrast serif with exaggerated razor-thin exterior serifs and a pronounced weight differential, developed from flat-brush calligraphic exploration. Its four optical sizes and expressive italic variants place it firmly in the display-to-text serif tradition.

Weights

ThinLightRegularMediumBoldBlack

Optical sizes and widths

TextDeckDisplayBanner

Family

Swear TextSwear DeckSwear DisplaySwear Banner

Languages

Latin

Tags

high-contrasteditorialdisplayexpressiveoptical-sizesserifvariablereverse-italic