Kinckq
Pyte Foundry · Ellmer Stefan · 2022
A digital revival of Roman Grotesque, an 1838 North American wood type whose letters fracture sharply at mid-cap-height, available in three static styles and a variable version.
About
Based on Roman Grotesque, a peculiar fatface first shown by George Nesbitt of New York around 1838 and likely cut by Edwin Allen of Windham, Connecticut, Kinckq translates the design's angular mid-cap fracture into a variable font with a custom KNKQ axis running from -34 to 34. The three static styles, Left, Middle and Right, represent distinct positions along that axis, each producing a different direction of lean. Ellmer Stefan redrawn all glyphs from original sources, departing from an earlier 2016 attempt, Kink A, in favour of a more faithful and technically capable interpretation.
Classification
A digital revival of 19th-century North American wood type, specifically the fractured fatface genre represented by Roman Grotesque; the zigzag mid-cap-height fracture and dimensional distortion place it firmly in the display category with no conventional subcategory equivalent.