Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Plotter Liner Mono

Curves built entirely from straight segments

Plotter Liner Mono is part of the Plotter super-family designed by Nikola Djurek and released through Typotheque in 2017. The project draws on the visual language of hand-lettered technical drawings and architectural plans, with letterforms reduced to stencil-form elements: stems, arms, curves, and diagonals. Plotter Liner constrains all curve rendering to straight segments, distinguishing it from the round-curve Plotter subfamily. The full Plotter suite spans 47 fonts across 12 packages.

Set in Plotter Liner Mono

Insights

The Liner subfamily enforces straight-segment rendering of curves throughout, creating a structurally distinct system from the round-curve Plotter branch.
Plotter Wave uses smart OpenType substitution to contextually rotate letterforms across a spectrum from extreme backslant to extreme right slant within a single word.
Plotter Hand introduces irregularity by simulating the manual application of architectural stencils, adding a handmade counterpoint to the otherwise systematic family.
OpenType feature support is intentionally limited; alternative forms are provided only for 'a' and its accented variants.