Industry: Design

Typeface Series for CSTM Fonts

A type series built on deliberate backward lean

Backslanted is an ongoing type series by CSTM Fonts comprising backslanted typefaces across varied styles, weights, and angles. The series uses a ruler and driver as defining drawing tools, keeping optical compensation to a minimum. Launched in 2022, it currently includes two sans serifs (Regular and Super), a Script, and a Blackletter, all supporting Extended Latin, Extended Georgian, and Cyrillic.

Set in Backslanted

Insights

The backslant is treated as a formal principle applied consistently across structurally different type genres.
Drawing tools—ruler and driver—are cited as constraints that shaped letterform decisions, with optical corrections minimized rather than normalized.
The open-ended series model allows independent typefaces to accumulate around a shared formal premise over time.
All members include math and currency symbols plus stylistic alternates, contextual alternates, and ligatures, indicating functional breadth beyond display use.