Typeface Design for Woodkit Print
No two words look alike
Woodkit Print is part of a three-family type system by Ondrej Jób for Typotheque, inspired by wood type and letterpress printing. OpenType feature logic automatically rotates between multiple glyph variants per character so no two words appear identical. The system supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts and was released in 2014.
Set in Woodkit Print
Insights
- Three OpenType feature tiers—basic ligatures, contextual alternates, and discretionary ligatures—control how many glyph variants rotate per character: three, five, or two respectively.
- Half-square and full-square glyph widths are built into the rotation system, adding rhythmic variation beyond shape alone.
- A dedicated Figures style enables stacking of modular body-part blocks, yielding nearly 400,000 combinatorial figure compositions from 78 heads, 8 arms, 8 legs, 8 trunks, and 10 hats.
- An Ornaments style bundles 500 symbols, mid-century-inspired dingbats, and seamless patterns alongside the text styles.
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