“Papas” is the typeface I use for my own correspondence. My two sons always used to tell each other: “You are not allowed to use this font, it is daddy’s!” And daddy in German is Papa. So this font became “Papas font”.
“Papas” is very sturdy and can be used for all kinds of things. I added a swash cut to each one of them to make it more usable for you folks out there. I throw the swashes in for free, that is why you can only buy the single weights as a bundle.
When it comes to design versatility in typography, variable fonts are hard to beat. Just imagine being able to tweak a font’s height to fill a stretch of vertical space, or being able to lean the letters just so in
The typeface was designed after seeing a photocopy of some News Gothic text where the ink had faded on the bottom of each character. As character recognition is generally based on the top half of a character, readability was never