Typeface Design for Cera Brush
Three alternates per letter, rotated automatically to simulate genuine hand-lettering
Cera Brush is a brush-drawn geometric display typeface designed by Max Kostopoulos and Jakob Runge at TypeMates in 2016. Available in two extreme weights—Thin and Black—each glyph was drawn by hand and supplemented with multiple alternates. Advanced OpenType coding automatically rotates three variants of each letter in a rhythm that mixes consonants and vowels, sustaining an authentic handmade appearance in typeset text. Despite its display nature, each weight carries over 1,800 glyphs including tabular figures, fractions, and support for more than 270 languages.
Set in Cera Brush
Insights
- The OpenType contextual alternates feature rotates three drawn variants of each letter, further mixing consonants and vowels to prevent repetitive glyph patterns.
- High-resolution detail in the drawings is deliberate, keeping the typeface viable at large display sizes.
- Although classified as a display typeface, both weights include tabular figures, fractions, old-style figures, and other features normally reserved for text families.
- Cera Brush is part of the broader Cera Collection alongside Cera Pro, Cera Stencil, and Cera Round, all sharing a geometric foundation.
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