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Mr Miyagi says <wax on wax off!>
Mr Miyagi says <wax on wax off!>
Mr Miyagi says <wax on wax off!>
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Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Bakemono Stereo
Francesco Canovaro created Bakemono as a way to explore the design space around the duality of fixed/proportional width. He was also interested in the concept of monowidth design, inherent in monospaced typefaces, that can bring flexibility and ease of use also to proportional type - allowing you to change the weight of a word without losing the text alignment. In his research on fixed width type design he mixed the lessons of mechanical typewriter technology with the intuitions of eastern brush calligraphy, which has been dealing with for centuries with fixed space grids.
The name of the typeface comes from the Japanese shape-shifter yokais that could change their form freely between human and animal, and aptly describes the metamorphic nature of this wide superfamily coming in proportional, monospace and intermediate subfamilies. With a design mixing the expansion principles of the brush with the sharp technicality of typewriter and system fonts, Bakemono can both excel at text size in its regular widths optimized for legibility as well as owning the page at display size with its uncommon design details.
Bakemono reflects its multicultural nature with its extended latin + cyrillic charset, soon to be expanded with Bakemono Arabic (exploring the fascinating world of monospaced arabic script) and Bakemono Kana (our first experiment in cjk scripts).
Writing system:
Language Supported:
Weights
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CStereo Thin
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CStereo Extralight
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CStereo Light
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CStereo Regular
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CStereo Medium
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CStereo Bold
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CStereo Extrabold
Features
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(HO!)Case-Sensitive Forms
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arteStylistic Set 1
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oggiStylistic Set 2
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WuwdStylistic Set 3
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KRXaorStylistic Set 4
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aelsStylistic Set 9
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12/23Fractions
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H123Alternate Annotation Forms
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H123Denominators
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H123Subscript
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H123Superscript
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H123Numerators
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120Slashed Zero
Variable Typefaces
Bakemono Variable
Variable fonts are only available with the full family package (and might not be supported by all software)
Bakemono and Obake
As class of yōkai, preternatural creatures in Japanese folklore. Literally, the terms mean a thing that changes.
Obake and Bakemono are often translated as "ghost", but primarily they refer to living things or supernatural beings who have taken on a temporary transformation, and these bakemono are distinct from the spirits of the dead. However, as a secondary usage, the term obake can be a synonym for yūrei, the ghost of a deceased human being. A bakemono's true form may be an animal such as a fox (kitsune), a raccoon dog (bake-danuki), a badger (mujina), a transforming cat (bakeneko), the spirit of a plant—such as a kodama, or an inanimate object which may possess a soul in Shinto and other animistic traditions. Obake derived from household objects are often called tsukumogami. A bakemono usually either disguises itself as a human or appears in a strange or terrifying form such as a hitotsume-kozō, an ōnyūdō, or a noppera-bō. In common usage, any bizarre apparition can be referred to as a bakemono or an obake whether or not it is believed to have some other form, making the terms roughly synonymous with yōkai.