Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Mokoko

Five years in development, one variable family

Mokoko is a contemporary geometric slab-serif typeface designed by Naïma Ben Ayed, developed between 2018 and 2023. It offers Weight and Italic variable font axes, allowing the design to shift from restrained to bold and characterful. The family covers Latin script with support for over 800 languages.

Set in Mokoko

Insights

Both Weight and Italic are offered as variable font axes, giving the design a wide range of expression along each axis.
OpenType features include alternate glyphs for j and Q alongside case-sensitive forms, fractions, ordinals, and tabular and proportional numerals.