Missive Bead 🧵 is a grid-based typeface designed to distill legible display serif forms into a systematic language for beaded embroidery. A grid framework was designed to accommodate the proportions of a “bugle bead”, a type of embroidery bead that is longer than it is wide.
The grid is composed of a horizontal, vertical, and a 15-degree diagonal. The inclusion of the diagonal axis allows the natural flow of Missive Serif (Missive Bead’s sibling style), to remain present within the structure of the beaded version.
V0.1 available on @futurefonts
Missive Bead 🧮 is a grid-based typeface designed to distill legible display serif forms into a systematic language for beaded embroidery using a “bugle bead”.
To showcase the practical application of the typeface’s concept, @h_s_gerard crafted 3D renders and motion of select letterforms to display how they are composed in beaded embroidery.
V0.1 available on @futurefonts
3D renders and motion created by @h_s_gerard
Missive Bead 🪡 is a grid-based typeface designed to distill legible display serif forms into a systematic language for beaded embroidery. Its foundation is derived from its companion style, Missive Serif, an ornate serif display family originating from Art Nouveau roots.
V0.1 available on @futurefonts
Missive Serif ❤️🔥 is an ornate display family, defined by its highly stylized details. Dramatic flares, gooey ball terminals, and flowing calligraphic joins allude to the typeface’s Art Nouveau roots.
V0.1 available on @futurefonts
Missive Serif 💌 is a typeface with dramatized attributes that lend to a romantic, decadently ornate, and fervid font family—well-suited for proclamations (encouraged, though not limited to the “love” kind).
V0.1 available on @futurefonts
Missive Serif 💘 is an ornate display family, defined by its highly stylized details. Dramatic flares, gooey ball terminals, and flowing calligraphic joins allude to the typeface’s Art Nouveau roots. Its tall x-height and narrow proportions make the typeface well-suited for graphic, large-scale applications.
V0.1 available on @futurefonts
Kickdrum 🌀 is a typeface family entirely unserious in its nature. It has a Veronica Mars: Season 1 sensibility. It’s the westernized “Parisian chic” of the ’00s modern girl, who rocks an Eiffel Tower lamp on her bedside table. The late-night dELiA*s magazine readers. The “Carries.” V0.1 coming soon.
Francine ⚾️ is a typeface family that distills basic shapes — like circles, squares, and triangles — into an easy-to-read language. By using the skeleton and proportions of 16th century old-style serifs, the silhouette provides a legible baseline for the family.
Available for testing and licensing over email at [email protected]
Our typefaces are available to test and purchase by accepting the terms of our End User License Agreement ☘️
Kind Type EULA’s allow for the typeface use in Desktop, Webfonts, Apps, Ebooks, Broadcast, Film, Video, and Advertising settings, based on the purchaser’s company size.
Get in touch over email at [email protected] to license our fonts
Missive Serif 💌 began as a revival from Miller & Richard’s Antique No. 16.
While it still reserves the core traits of the reference material, subtle adjustments like increasing the width and further-rounding the curves bring an updated feel to the type. V0.1 coming soon.
Francine 🌭 is a text family aiming to blend the foundations of the old-style genre with influences of rounded traits found in geometric forms from the ‘70s prototype era.
Available for testing and licensing over email at [email protected]
3D design and render by @h_s_gerard
Kickdrum 🍭 is an experiment in transfusing Art Deco proportions, exaggerated swirls reminiscent of ’00s display faces, and the niche pop-cultural trend referred to as the “shoe diva” aesthetic. V0.1 coming soon.
