Amalgam Font

Amalgam Font is a bubbly rounded sans, with purposefully colliding and overlapping characters in the heavy weights.

David Jonathan Ross once asked me what one of my typefaces would look like if I started with the Greek. Amalgam is the result of that experiment. Originally drawn from lettering found on the Greek sheet music cover for Η Δροσούλα (1946), taking the rounded, top heavy features and expanding it into a playful overlapping typeface.

Originally not overlapping, the amalgamation of characters works well in the greek due to most characters being rounded. To help provide a similar yet functional Latin, Amalgam requires a few contextual alternates to help give the paragraph a good colour by opening or closing the space between letters.

The design of the Greek informed the decisions for the Latin, and the Black weight has had an impact on the lighter weights. With all the various alternates in the black, these alternates are still present in the lighter weights, giving the text a certain musicality and rhythm.

Amalgam v0.1 includes basic Latin and greek with the necessary punctuation and symbols. It has 6 weights, and is comes as a variable font. It also includes a handful of stylised, script like alternatives to elevate your designs.

The heavier weights are intended for display use, such as big headers, magazine covers, and much more. The lighter weights can provide you with a bit more control over readability, and can thus be used a slightly smaller sizes. Create weird, playful and illegible designs.