Monster is an ultra-chunky display font that reimagines Excoffon’s Antique Olive Nord with bouncier curves, relaxed constraints and a more care-free appearance.
Font Details
Roger Excoffon’s Antique Olive Nord designs are instantly recognisable. The bold forms are idiosyncratic but feel right given very tight vertical constraints. Monster explores an alternative where the caps-height, ascenders and descenders are allowed more freedom. The weight balance for the lowercase is reconsidered, shifting volume downwards. This is especially apparent in “t”, “g”, “e” and “a”. Counters in the lowercase are balanced by larger insets where strokes meet, so that overall colour is more even.
Font Features
Case Sensitive Forms
Case sensitive forms can be activated using the OpenType case feature.
«[{(H-O)}]» «[{(H-O)}]»
Small Figures
Small figures can be activated using the OpenType sups and subs feature, or using the corresponding superior and inferior unicode characters.
H1O2x³
Fractions
Fractions can be activated using the OpenType frac feature, or using the corresponding unicode fraction characters where available.
8 ½99/100
Ordinals
Ordinals can be activated using the OpenType ordn feature.
8a 9o8a 9o
Language Support
Monster supports these 104 languages.
Achinese
Acholi
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amahuaca
Anaang
Aymara
Balinese
Bari
Basque
Bemba
Bena
Bosnian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chavacano
Chokwe
Croatian
Czech
Danish
English
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
Glyphs
Uppercase
Lowercase
Uppercase accents
Lowercase accents
Numerals
Small Figures
Ordinals
Currency
Mathematics
Ligatures
Punctuation
Symbols
Fractions
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