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Motif Grotesk
A workhorse grotesque that stretches from whisper-quiet captions to shouting posters without changing its voice.
Test it →Independent type foundry — Est. 2019
01 — Manifesto
We draw letters that carry momentum, then let them do the talking. Every family starts as pencil sketches and ends as a font engineered to hold up at any size, in any language it is asked to speak.
A workhorse grotesque that stretches from whisper-quiet captions to shouting posters without changing its voice.
Test it →An editorial serif with a soft, wonky italic. Built for long reads, big opinions, and bigger headlines.
Test it →A monospace for code, data, and labels that still wants to be looked at. Every glyph the same honest width.
Test it →For print & apps
$60 one-time
Most popular
$90 one-time
For products
$240 one-time
Motif Grotesk — Desktop licence — $60
Letterforms start on paper, testing rhythm, stress, and a few signature details before anything touches a screen.
Vectorised, spaced, and tested across a full pangram and a wall of real layouts — not just isolated letters.
The core weight grows into a family: interpolated masters, italics, and Latin Extended coverage.
Hinted, kerned, and QA'd for web and desktop use, then shipped with a full specimen and licence.
Families & counting
Glyphs per family
Latin Extended languages
Licences sold
Yes. Every family ships with a free trial: full character set, one weight, for mockups and pitches. The tester above uses the real retail files.
Yes — you only pay the difference. Desktop to Web, Web to App, or a single family to the whole library, any time.
Within 14 days, if the files don't work for your project. Fonts are software, so we ask what went wrong first — usually we can fix it.
Two custom projects a year. A wordmark starts at $4,000; a full retail family is a conversation. Write to [email protected].
50% off any licence with a valid student email. The trial fonts are free for coursework either way.