Reptil
The Designers Foundry · Raphaël de la Morinerie & Ethan Nakache
A contemporary revival of Bob Newman's 1971 Letraset typeface Turtle, rebuilt on circular geometry by Raphaël de la Morinerie and Ethan Nakache.
About
Designed by Raphaël de la Morinerie and Ethan Nakache, Reptil takes the circular structure of the long-forgotten Letraset Turtle and reworks it with a contemporary edge, pushing legibility to its limits through compact capitals and arresting lowercase forms. The result sits somewhere between retro novelty and functional display type, with OpenType alternates offering one-shape variants of r and t alongside three shapes of m. Coverage extends to 344 glyphs across a wide range of Latin-based languages.
Classification
Built on a circular geometric foundation with compact capitals and distinctive lowercase forms, Reptil is a contemporary revival of the 1971 Letraset typeface Turtle, placing it firmly in the display category with a retro-geometric subcategory.