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newell-typeface

Original geometric display typeface built from three primitives — vertical rails, horizontal bars, 45° diagonals. Squared terminals, parametric generation, no curves. OFL-1.1.

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At a glance

shipped

2026-07-25

version

v0.1.1-alpha

license

OFL-1.1

glyphs

weight

Regular

Highlights

Three primitives, infinite combinations

Every glyph assembled from vertical rails, horizontal bars, and 45° diagonals. One visual grammar inherited across the whole alphabet.

Parametric, not hand-drawn

Glyphs generated from declarative rules. Tighten a rule and the entire typeface updates — no per-glyph pixel-pushing.

Squared terminals, decisive geometry

No curves, no rounded strokes. Pure rails meet at hard 90° and 45° corners. Built for impact, not warmth.

Open source under OFL-1.1

Modify, bundle, redistribute. Use it in commercial work. Improvements flow back via the same vocabulary.

Stack

fontToolsfontmakeUFO sourcePythonOpenType

Newell is an original geometric display typeface. Every glyph lives on a 1000-unit em with cap height 700, x-height 500. Strokes are 110 units wide with squared terminals. Diagonals are exactly 45° — no exceptions.

The vocabulary is three primitives: rail, diagonal, and junction. The signature N diagonal — top of one rail to bottom of another — reappears in M, K, R, V, W, X, Y, Z, and digits 1, 2, 4, 7. That recurrence is the family resemblance.

Status

v0.1.1-alpha — uppercase A–Z, digits 0–9, basic punctuation, common symbols (⚡ · → ← — ★ ☆ ✗). 71 glyphs. Single Regular weight. Static build (variable axes planned for v0.2).

Recommended for display and headline use, not long-form body text. The v0.1 DNA forbids curves, rounded terminals, and any angle other than 45° — several traditional letterforms are unrenderable as a result. S reads as Z; C/D/G/O are rectilinear approximations; check mark omitted entirely. v0.2 adds a third primitive type to fix these. Full trade-offs documented in the README.

Live sites

Interactive try page — type your own text in any glyph
Technical specimen — full glyph sheet + measurements
Wordmark site — single-line brand showcase

Source and OFL-1.1 license on GitHub.