Lettra Mono
Pangram Pangram Foundry · Francesca Bolognini, Mat Desjardins · 2024
A monospaced serif by Francesca Bolognini and Mat Desjardins that takes typewriter aesthetics as its starting point, adding strong vertical contrast and diamond-shaped details across eight weights with matching italics.
About
Each character is individually crafted to maintain consistent weight and proportion within a fixed-width grid, a constraint the designers treat as a design problem rather than a limitation. The typeface draws on classic serif typewriter forms and botanical illustration detail, with the latter informing its distinctive diamond terminals and high contrast strokes. An experimental character set includes unconventional ligatures, a double-width Oo and a sigil, alongside a comprehensive range of OpenType alternates.
Classification
A monospaced typeface with explicit serif construction, drawing from typewriter aesthetics with strong vertical contrast and diamond-shaped details. Classified as mono due to fixed-width spacing being the defining structural constraint of the design.