Born under the watchful stares of the Berlin art & design scene, Fip was designed live in a gallery for the exhibition “(Font) In Progress:”.
The release was scheduled to coincide with the show’s closing party – after one month of work. However, in the last days of the project, instead of finalizing the design and producing font files, the scope of the project was greatly expanded to include more styles, extra OpenType features, and the Cyrillic script.
Fast forward a couple years and finally Fip is released! It evolved into a massive superfamily of 64 monospaced fonts that features a wide range of different styles. The diversity of these fonts offers unique opportunities for many different tastes and projects.

Designed by: Rob Keller
Published in: 2015
Styles: 64 Fonts
Scripts: Latin, Cyrillic
№ of Characters: 717 glyphs per font

View the PDF specimen
Licenses from: €78

The Style

There are several noticeable features that make Fip immediately recognizable:

Fip features, part one: ‘Aa’ with decorative cuts beside a version with no cuts and rounded corners, plus monolinear light ‘Rr’ and bold contrast ‘Bb’ with vertical stress

Fip features, part two: taller narrower tops and shorter wider bottoms on E, e, S and s, squarish curves on Q and q, and a monospaced M and m

Fip vs Fip Rounded
The ‘original’ version of Fip is somewhat decorative with various cuts and notches on serifs, corners, and terminals. The Rounded version features not just rounded corners – it has a more linear and simplified design than the original.

Comparison of Fip Regular in pink and Fip Rounded in black showing the word ‘Gin?’

Fip Sans
Sliced & severed serifs secures Sans’ style. Astute typographers will notice how the lack of seriffed ornamentation drastically alters the feel of the design. Between harshly removing the serifs and delicately adjusting select forms & proportions, Fip Sans has a clear and streamlined presence for when less is more.

Comparison of Fip Regular and Fip Sans with a Jan Tschichold quote, ‘says → Ja, das ist echt cool!’

Fip Rough
Harking back to the good ol’ days, the rough versions of Fip are reminiscent of splotchy typewriters and cheap printing. These fonts give a warm, organic feel for when straight lines and sharp vectors are just toooo perfect. Rough versions come complimentary (yes FREE!) alongside every purchase of the un-rough fonts.

Comparison of Fip Regular and Fip Rough, the words ‘Ink & Paper’ with ragged inky edges in the rough version

Rough for the web
Special web-optimized versions are included in the Web font packages. The normal OTF versions of the Rough fonts are quite large (700-800kb), and most of the details get lost in the pixels. So the optimized version are more simple and the files weigh in around 85-90kb each (105-110kb with Cyrillic included).

Comparison of Fip Rough for print and for web: ‘YAY → SAVE Bandwidth’ in both versions

Size comparison of Fip Rough at 979kb for print and Fip Rough Web at 150kb for screens, with alphabets from 15px to 100px

All 64 styles in all their Fippy glory.

Tall specimen strip showing the first half of Fip’s 64 styles, long words like ‘Abbreviating’ in weights from light to black, upright and italic

Tall specimen strip showing the second half of Fip’s 64 styles, long words like ‘Adventurists’ in weights from light to black, upright and italic

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Download Fip’s PDF specimen to see how 64 monospaced fonts line up!

Fip’s Character Set

License FAQ

Desktop:

Commercial: This is for general use for most (offline) typesetting. The fonts may be used for just about any print application, including branding, logos, magazines, posters, etc.

Personal: This license is only for individuals who are using the fonts for their own private, non-commercial use. This generally means personal projects for school or home use with no direct or indirect connection to making money. This license is explicitly excluding any use on published materials, branding for business, or for anything with commercial intent.

Student: This discount is valid for current, full time students of any level. The student license remains valid even after graduation, and is allowed for commercial work, so you don’t need to worry about re-licensing later.

Web:

Our web fonts are distributed as WOFF, WOFF2, & EOT formats. They are licensed per domain and based on the traffic your website receives at the time of licensing. So, if you start out smaller then grow, there’s no need to update your license later. It’s also a one time fee so there are no annual or reoccurring costs.

< 100K pageviews/month: For websites with under 100,000 pageviews per month.

< 1M pageviews/month: For websites with 100,000 to 1 million pageviews per month.

< 10M pageviews/month: For websites with 1 to 10 million pageviews per month.

> 10M pageviews/month: For websites with more than 10 million pageviews per month.

Embedding:

App: This license is for embedding fonts into mobile or desktop applications. The license is valid on a per major version of your app. Meaning, the fonts are always allowed on smaller free updates to your app, but for more substantial paid updates an additional license must be purchased.

ePub: This license covers most digital publishing formats including EPUB, AZW, IBA, PDF, and others. The fonts are licensed on a per-title usage, but they may be used on any number of different file formats for the same title (meaning you can produce EPUB & PDF versions of the same title with the same license). Per-title means one specific book or one issue of a magazine, not a series. Additional titles can be purchased later for only a bit extra.

Additional explanations can be found on our FAQ page.

Or just write to us, we are happy to answer any questions.

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Fip’s Character Set

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