Kakabus | Petra D

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Technical information

I developed and named the script typeface Kakabus after my collaboration with Kamila Kučerová back in 2017. The design is based on the marker lettering created for her graphic design studio of the same name. Although I tried to rename it later, the name had already grown so deeply under my skin that I couldn’t come up with anything that felt more fitting for months.

For Kakabus font, the key characteristic oval stroke is defined by the round Centropen marker, whose tip is sharply terminated. Writing at a slight slant forms an oval with one sharp point. It happens when writing at slight angles, where the marker's body is almost lying on the paper, and you write with the side of the tip. That way, the script can be written very quickly because the hand rests on a relatively large area of the paper and is confident. The stems are naturally bending when writing vertical strokes, according to the hand's anatomy. When writing horizontal strokes, the rotation of the hand at 90° makes the stems a little darker than the vertical ones. A characteristic sharp bend is produced at the corners and eyes when writing rounded strokes.

Kakabus is a script typeface that has been designed with user-friendliness in mind. It doesn't need any OpenType features (like hidden ligatures, forced contextual alternatives, stylistic sets or contextual substitutions) to connect seamlessly. It feels connected because the letters slightly overlap, making it easy to use. The cursive forms of the characters (e.g. r and s) have been replaced by their upright alternates, further enhancing the font's readability. The only exceptions in the features are fake small capitals, which you can use to set texts in all capitals.

PS. The term “kakabus“ is used in Czech to describe someone who is constantly grumpy and obnoxious. Neither characteristic fits the mood in which I created the typeface, but I loved the paradox!

Specification

Full Name:

PD Kakabus
Styles:

1 – Regular
Variable font:

Not available
Type design:

Petra Dočekalová
Designed:

2017
Released:

September 2025
Classification:

Script, Brush, Casual
Number of glyphs:

690
Font mastering:

Renegade Fonts, Petra-D
Specimen Design:

Marius Corradini
Text:

Petra Dočekalová

Glyph

UTF-8: U+0041

Letters uppercase

0041

00C1

0102

01CD

00C2

00C4

Ạ

1EA0

00C0

0100

0104

00C5

00C3

00C6

01FC

01E2

0042

0043

0106

010C

00C7

0108

010A

0044

010E

0110

00D0

0045

00C9

0114

011A

00CA

00CB

0116

Ẹ

1EB8

00C8

0112

0118

Ẽ

1EBC

018F

0046

0047

011E

011C

0122

0120

Ḡ

1E20

0048

0126

0124

0049

0132

00CD

012C

01CF

00CE

00CF

0130

Ị

1ECA

00CC

012A

012E

0128

004A

0134

004B

0136

004C

0139

013D

013B

013F

0141

004D

004E

0143

0147

0145

Ṇ

1E46

00D1

014A

004F

00D3

014E

01D1

00D4

00D6

Ọ

1ECC

00D2

0150

014C

00D8

01FE

00D5

0152

0050

00DE

0051

0052

0154

0158

0156

0053

015A

0160

015E

015C

0218

Ṣ

1E62

ẞ

1E9E

0054

0166

0164

0162

021A

0055

00DA

016C

01D3

00DB

00DC

Ụ

1EE4

00D9

0170

016A

0172

016E

0168

0056

0057

Ẃ

1E82

0174

Ẅ

1E84

Ẁ

1E80

0058

0059

00DD

0176

0178

Ỵ

1EF4

Ỳ

1EF2

0232

Ỹ

1EF8

005A

0179

017D

017B

0394

03A9

Ω

2126

Letters lowercase

0061

00E1

0103

01CE

00E2

00E4

ạ

1EA1

00E0

0101

0105

00E5

00E3

00E6

01FD

01E3

0062

0063

0107

010D

00E7

0109

010B

0064

010F

0111

00F0

0065

00E9

0115

011B

00EA

00EB

0117

ẹ

1EB9

00E8

0113

0119

ẽ

1EBD

0259

0066

0067

011F

011D

0123

0121

ḡ

1E21

0068

0127

0125

0069

0131

00ED

012D

01D0

00EE

00EF

ị

1ECB

00EC

012B

012F

0129

0133

006A

0237

0135

006B

0137

0138

006C

013A

013E

013C

0140

0142

006D

006E

0144

0149

0148

0146

ṇ

1E47

00F1

014B

006F

00F3

014F

01D2

00F4

00F6

ọ

1ECD

00F2

0151

014D

00F8

01FF

00F5

0153

0070

00FE

0071

0072

0155

0159

0157

0073

015B

0161

015F

015D

0219

ṣ

1E63

00DF

0074

0167

0165

0163

021B

0075

00FA

016D

01D4

00FB

00FC

ụ

1EE5

00F9

0171

016B

0173

016F

0169

0076

0077

ẃ

1E83

0175

ẅ

1E85

ẁ

1E81

0078

0079

00FD

0177

00FF

ỵ

1EF5

ỳ

1EF3

0233

ỹ

1EF9

007A

017A

017E

017C

03BC

03C0

0192

00B5

Numbers

0030

0031

0032

0033

0034

0035

0036

0037

0038

0039

00BD

00BC

00BE

00B9

00B2

00B3

⁴

2074

⁹

2079

Marks

0308

0307

0300

0301

030B

0302

030C

0306

030A

0303

0304

0312

0323

0326

0327

0328

Punctuation

002E

002C

003A

;

003B

…

2026

0021

00A1

003F

00BF

00B7

•

2022

002A

0023

002F

005C

002D

–

2013

—

2014

‑

2011

005F

(

0028

)

0029

{

007B

}

007D

[

005B

]

005D

‚

201A

„

201E

“

201C

”

201D

‘

2018

’

2019

00AB

00BB

‹

2039

›

203A

0022

0027

0040

0026

00B6

00A7

†

2020

‡

2021

0025

‰

2030

Symbols

⁄

2044

00A9

00AE

℗

2117

™

2122

00B0

007C

00A6

00A2

00A4

0024

€

20AC

00A3

₿

20BF

00A5

002B

−

2212

00D7

00F7

003D

≠

2260

003E

003C

≥

2265

≤

2264

00B1

≈

2248

00AC

007E

005E

∞

221E

∫

222B

∆

2206

∏

220F

∑

2211

√

221A

∂

2202

↑

2191

↗

2197

→

2192

↘

2198

↓

2193

↙

2199

←

2190

↖

2196

◊

25CA

00A8

02D9

0060

00B4

02DD

02D8

02DA

02DC

00AF

00B8

02DB

Others

00AA

00BA

02C6

02C7

Opentype features

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Scripts

Latin

Language support

Afrikaans Albanian Basque Bosnian Breton Catalan Chamorro Chichewa Cornish Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Faroese Finnish French Frisian Galician German Greenlandic Hawaiian Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Kashubian Kurdish (Latin) Latvian Lithuanian Luxemburgis Maltese Māori Norwegian (Bokmål) Occitan Polish Portuguese Rhaeto-Romanic Romanian Serbian (Latin) Slovak Slovene Somali (Latin) Spanish Swedish Tswana Turkish Turkmen Welsh Wolof

Kakabus Regular

Size: 125.0px

Line height: 90%

Don’t act like a $@#* Kakabus!

Kakabus Regular

Size: 64.0px

Line height: 110%

Kakabus is a script that has been designed with user-friendliness in mind. It doesn't need any features to connect seamlessly. It feels connected because the letters slightly overlap.

Kakabus Regular

Size: 24.0px

Line height: 120%

A key characteristic oval stroke is defined by the round marker, whose tip is sharply terminated. Writing at a slight slant forms an oval with one sharp point. It happens when writing at slight angles, where the marker's body is almost lying on the paper, and you write with the side of the tip. That way, the script can be written very quickly because the hand rests on a relatively large area of the paper

and is confident. The stems are naturally bending when writing vertical strokes, according to the hand's anatomy. When writing horizontal strokes, the rotation of the hand at 90° makes the stems a little darker than the vertical ones. A characteristic sharp bend is produced at the corners and eyes when writing rounded strokes.

Size px

Sketches

Some of the original sketches with Centropen marker, 2017

Font in Use

There were two versions of the final lettering, and the one with extended characters was chosen in 2017.