Typeface Design for Plotter Mono
Monospaced subfamily within a draftsman's technical lettering system
Plotter Mono is the fixed-width subfamily within Nikola Djurek's Plotter, a large type family rooted in the hand-lettering conventions of technical and architectural drafting. The design distills letterforms to monolinear strokes with round terminals, reducing each character to its most elementary structural components: stems, arms, curves, and diagonals. Released by Typotheque in 2017, the broader Plotter suite comprises 47 fonts across 12 packages.
Set in Plotter Mono
Insights
- The super-family splits into two core rendering approaches: Plotter uses round curves, while Plotter Liner restricts all curves to straight segments.
- Plotter Wave uses OpenType smart substitution to contextually assign letter shapes by slope angle, cycling from extreme backslant to extreme right slant across a word.
- Plotter Hand introduces irregularity by simulating the manual use of physical architectural stencils.
- Upright forms can be mathematically inclined to any angle, including backslants.
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