Meet the new display font TT Polihaus—a geometric, chaotic, and slightly crazy font!
TT Polihaus is an experimental sans serif born in TypeType’s Creative Lab. „Geometric shapes“ and „multidirectional slants“ are the two principles the designer had to combine in one font for this experiment. As a result, the slant was not implemented as an italic, but became the core concept. This is how a sans serif was born that, at first glance, looks ordinary, but then „goes crazy“ and breaks apart, transforming into a stencil pattern.
The typeface includes four styles reflecting all stages of the font’s madness: from a standard Regular, which perfectly handles small blocks of body text, to a wild Crazy, which grabs attention. These two states are connected by a variable font slider that can be moved in either direction. The extreme font styles work as an ideal font pair: a calm sans serif and a vibrant display font. In the intermediate SemiRegular, the level of display expression the font can reach is not yet noticeable, but a slight „jitter“ and outline distortion are already visible. And SemiCrazy allows you to add display characteristics while softening the degree of madness.
To make the typesetting look even more dynamic, we added a feature that changes the shapes of repeating letters to alternate ones: for example, in the word „DIFFERENT“, the two ‘F’s will look different. The typeface also includes a large set of emoji icons that change just like the letters and match the character of the font.
TT Polihaus will easily fit into the identity of a dance festival or a rave party. It will look great on energy drink packaging or customized LEGO, in navigation for a contemporary art exhibition or an art space, and in the branding of a creative architectural bureau. The variable font can emphasize the unconventional nature or duality of a brand, and become a cool tool for dynamic graphics, animation, and titles.
TT Polihaus includes:
- 5 font styles: 4 uprights and 1 variable font
- 948 glyphs in each font style
- 33 OpenType features
- Support for over 230 languages
