Fip Typeface by Mota Italic

Born under the watchful stares of the Berlin type and art scene, Fip was designed live in a gallery for the exhibition “(Font) In Progress:”.

After one month of development in the gallery, the release was scheduled to coincide with the show’s closing party. However, in the last days of the work, instead of finishing up the design and producing final files, the scope of the project was greatly expanded to include more styles, OpenType features, and Cyrillic.

Fast forward a couple years and finally Fip is ready set free! It has 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: $39

The Style

There are several noticeable features that make Fip immediately recognizable:

Fip's Features

More of Fip's Features

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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

All 64 styles in all their Fippy glory.

All of Fip's 64 Styles!

Download Fip’s PDF specimen to see all the details close up!

Fip’s Character Set

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