Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Stylo

Uniform stroke, overlapping joins, no trimming—Stylo commits to the ballpoint's honest mechanics

Stylo is a type family modeled on ballpoint pen mechanics, where stroke weight stays uniform in every direction and ink accumulates at crossings rather than being trimmed. Each letterform is built from a single even-weight stroke with rounded terminals and overlapping joins left intact. The range runs from Thin—close to a technical pen on tracing paper—to Super, where counters compress to slits and forms become soft and inflated. The italic is drawn independently and set slightly lighter than the upright so both can coexist within a paragraph.

Set in Stylo

Insights

Joins overlap rather than being cleaned up, preserving the ink-pile effect inherent to ballpoint writing
At Super weight, counters reduce to narrow slits as the stroke swells
The italic is a distinct construction, not a mechanical slant, and carries a lighter color to remain compatible with the roman in mixed setting