Industry: Design

Booster

One historical source, seven subfamilies, 222 styles

Booster is a wide, geometric grotesque superfamily by Maksym Kobuzan, released in 2025 through Blaze Type. It draws from the Modern Gothic tradition of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in the late 19th century, reinterpreting that historical model with a contemporary twist. The collection spans 222 styles across seven subfamilies — Sans, Soft, Text, Pixel, Polygonal, Stencil, and Inktrap — with support for extended Latin and Cyrillic scripts.

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The design traces its historical reference to Barnhart Brothers & Spindler's Modern Gothic, a specific late-19th-century American type foundry model.
Subtle rounded details — softened character tails and capsule-like accents on symbols and diacritics — moderate the otherwise bold geometric structure.
The seven subfamilies (Sans, Soft, Text, Pixel, Polygonal, Stencil, Inktrap) are named as distinct members of the collection, each implied to serve different design purposes.
Available export formats include OTF, TTF, WOFF, and Variable.