A seven-weight grotesque slab drawn from 19th-century Egyptian types, with ball terminals, ink traps and humanist stroke contrast giving it an animated quality.
About
Built across seven weights with matching italics, Cagney takes the Egyptian slab tradition as its starting point and applies deep cuts and ink traps alongside outsized ball terminals and off-axis angles. The result sits between historical slab warmth and modern-day legibility, with over 900 characters per style covering Western, Southern and Central European Latin. Fourteen number variants and a full set of OpenType alternates make it well-equipped for editorial and identity work.
Classification
Described explicitly as a modern grotesque slab with Egyptian-style origins from the 19th century, combining heavy and light stroke contrast with ball terminals typical of the grotesque slab genre.