Vulf
OH no Type · James Edmondson · 2018
A typewriter-inspired monospace and its slab-stripped sans companion, designed as the official typeface of funk band Vulfpeck.
About
Vulf Mono takes its cues from the IBM Selectric's 12 Point Light Italic, rendered across four weights from Light to Black with matching italics, amounting to eight styles and 434 glyphs per style. Vulf Sans emerged from the same source by removing the slab serifs and switching to proportional spacing, adding a Medium weight to produce ten styles. Both families carry an unmistakable warmth and rhythmic irregularity that suits editorial, music and identity work where character is more valuable than neutrality.
Classification
Vulf Mono draws directly from the IBM Selectric typewriter's 12 Point Light Italic, placing it firmly in the typewriter-inspired monospace tradition. Vulf Sans is a proportionally spaced derivative, but the family's identity and origin are rooted in the mono.