Typeface Design for Print and PDF Forms
A monospaced typeface built around the logic of form design
Comb is a monospaced typeface family with humanist characteristics, released by Typotheque in 2007 and designed by Frederik Berlaen. It targets print and PDF form creation, pairing Comb Forms—a set of keystroke-accessible graphic elements including boxes, lines, and combs in three weights—with Comb Text, a fixed-width companion spaced to work alongside those elements. Cursive italics are an uncommon feature for a fixed-width family. Stylistic variations on form elements include straight and round edges, plus filled and empty box options.
Set in Comb
Insights
- Form elements are assigned to keystrokes to make form creation as simple as typing.
- Comb Forms offers three weights of graphic elements, each with straight/round and filled/empty stylistic variants.
- Comb Text is spaced specifically to give optimal results alongside Comb Forms glyphs.
- Cursive italics are explicitly noted as unusual within the fixed-width genre.
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