Slowglass Text Light
Kevin spends hours looking for the perfect shells and sea glass.
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Slowglass is a quirky geometric semi-serif typeface with softly rounded triangular serifs in five weights, accompanied by flamboyant geohumanist italics. It supports extended Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.
Slowglass Text Light Italic
The sound of waves crashing against the rocks at night.
Slowglass Text Regular
I love watching the waves roll and glow in the moonlight.
Slowglass Text Regular Italic
She’d build sandcastles and play in the waves till sundown.
Slowglass Text Medium
By day, the ocean is a deep blue; by night — a dark abyss.
Slowglass Text Medium Italic
A place to relax and unwind or to get away from the grind.
Slowglass Text Bold
Warmth of the sand and the way it sticks to my toes.
Slowglass Text Bold Italic
I remember the first time we went to the beach with Rory.
Slowglass Text Black
Molly is always so calm and happy when she’s by the sea.
Slowglass Text Black Italic
Even after everything, the ocean is still my happy place.
Slowglass Light
Kevin spends hours looking for the perfect shells and sea glass.
Slowglass Light Italic
The sound of waves crashing against the rocks at night.
Slowglass Regular
I love watching the waves roll and glow in the moonlight.
Slowglass Regular Italic
She’d build sandcastles and play in the waves till sundown.
Slowglass Medium
By day, the ocean is a deep blue; by night — a dark abyss.
Slowglass Medium Italic
A place to relax and unwind or to get away from the grind.
Slowglass Bold
Warmth of the sand and the way it sticks to my toes.
Slowglass Bold Italic
I remember the first time we went to the beach with Rory.
Slowglass Black
Molly is always so calm and happy when she’s by the sea.
Slowglass Black Italic
Even after everything, the ocean is still my happy place.
Slowglass Alt Light
Kevin spends hours looking for the perfect shells and sea glass.
Slowglass Alt Light Italic
The sound of waves crashing against the rocks at night.
Slowglass Alt Regular
I love watching the waves roll and glow in the moonlight.
Slowglass Alt Regular Italic
She’d build sandcastles and play in the waves till sundown.
Slowglass Alt Medium
By day, the ocean is a deep blue; by night — a dark abyss.
Slowglass Alt Medium Italic
A place to relax and unwind or to get away from the grind.
Slowglass Alt Bold
Warmth of the sand and the way it sticks to my toes.
Slowglass Alt Bold Italic
I remember the first time we went to the beach with Rory.
Slowglass Alt Black
Molly is always so calm and happy when she’s by the sea.
Slowglass Alt Black Italic
Even after everything, the ocean is still my happy place.
Let’s start from
The beginning
The initial 2017 release of Slowglass was a two-weight unicase design full of quirky choices inspired by the uncial script. It was my first published font. Fast-forward to 2019, I spotted my font in the wild, used for the logo (and menu) of the fictitious Saintly Fare restaurant in the movie Always Be My Maybe. I was thrilled to see it out there, except… the logo didn’t look all that great. It had a faux-boldy black stroke, the half‑uncial–inspired spur on the e was chopped off, and it was capitalized using a hastily-doctored uppercase. I took the hint and decided to get back to the drawing board.
Modified Slowglass version 1.1 — capitals added by filmmakers.
Slowglass was re-released as an extended bicameral family in 2021. I redesigned the entire character set, added a new more conservative set of capital letters, and created three new darker weights along with some brand new quirky italics. I delegated the unicase glyphs to a separate Slowglass Alt cut, and designed more conventional forms for the main cut and the Text cut. These alternates can be also mixed and matched via OpenType stylistic sets.
Slowglass Alt version 2.004 — what the logo could have looked like.
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Can you see some
Uncial roots?
Slowglass is built on a wide-stride, stocky skeleton with generous bowls and arches. More trails of uncial inspiration can be found among some of the alternates, but maybe the most uncial thing is that Slowglass looks good inch‑tall.
OpenType features
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Slowglass features several out‑there signature glyphs, but also offers milder choices for text usage.
Slowglass Alt and Slowglass Text.
Slowglass Alt Italic and Slowglass Text Italic.
