VESPER DISPLAY
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow — nine ligatures deep and still sharp at 8 px.
TYPE FOUNDRY · SPECIMEN Nº 07
A serif family cut for screens that refuse to sit still — fourteen styles, three optical sizes, and a specimen that answers your cursor.
THE FAMILY
One serif, cut fourteen ways.
Every cell below is set in the family itself. Move your cursor across the grid — the light follows you.
TYPE TESTER · LIVE
Motion is meaning.
VESPER MONO
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
0123456789 → 0123456789
{ axes: [ "opsz", "wght", "ital" ] }
OPTICAL SIZES
CHARACTER SET
VESPER ITALIC
Cut on a steep slant, with terminals that finish the sentence for you.
THE STUDIO
Slow craft for fast pages.
- Founded
- 2019
- Studio
- Rotterdam, NL
- Principals
- J. Verhoeven · M. Okafor
- Method
- Every kern by hand
We started Oblique because screens learned to move before typography did. Vesper is our answer: a serif drawn at three optical sizes and tuned so that even a four-hundred-millisecond transition has something beautiful to say. Every curve was argued over. Every kern was placed by hand. Motion is not decoration here — it is the sentence, being spoken.
The family in numbers
THE FAMILY IN NUMBERS
14
styles across seven weights, roman and italic.
3
optical sizes, from 8 px footnotes to 300 px titles.
91
languages covered by the Latin Extended character set.