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Back in 2022, I created the fat display script Donut for the mural in Warsaw, Poland. I wanted the characters to be as wide and compact as possible, and make the letters fit nicely on the relatively low but long wall. I tried to get as much mass into the individual letter's bounding box and squeeze the stems as close as possible, similar to, e.g. Klimax (Setup Type), Baseliner (Briefcase Type Foundry), or Corpulent (Suitcase Type Foundry). Donut's dark ductus is enhanced by the tight spacing, where the letters bump into each other or overlaps, leaving only tiny gaps between them. The small triangles that act as false ink traps are a striking detail to aid the complicated legibility. This detail also appears in all characters, such as #?&%, etc. The diacritics are partially recessed into individual glyphs, yet clear. Donut is a simple uppercase script typeface without unnecessary complexity supplemented with a minimum of OpenType features, although I could not miss out on the alternative E. Enjoy!
PS. Donut is a Czech name for a fried doughnut. Although Czechs do not prepare doughnuts with a hole, but are full & filled with jam and sugar, it is a traditional pastry eaten especially during Easter holidays.
Specification
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Full Name:PD Donut
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Styles:1 – Regular
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Variable font:Not available
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Type design:Petra Dočekalová
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Designed:2022
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Released:2024
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Classification:Script, Heavy, Display
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Number of glyphs:343
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Font Mastering:Renegade Fonts, Petra-D
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Specimen Design:Marius Corradini
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Text:Petra Dočekalová
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Donut's dark ductus is enhanced by the tight spacing, where the letters bump into each other or overlaps, leaving only tiny gaps between them. The small triangles that act as false ink traps are a striking detail to aid the complicated legibility.
This detail also appears in all characters, such as #?&%, etc. The diacritics are partially recessed into individual glyphs, yet clear. Donut is a simple uppercase script typeface without unnecessary complexity.
Donut is a Czech name for a fried doughnut.
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I was always fascinated with dark & heavy letters. These are some of shape explorations that might led me to the final design of Donut, 2016
