Industry: Design

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Paper-cut origins, dovetail letterforms

Designed by Nikita Kanarev, Fluxetype sits at the intersection of humanist sans and serifless roman. Its graphic concept emerged from a physical process: letters were cut from paper, disassembled, and reassembled to explore—in analogue form—variability mechanics from the digital world. Form and counterform interlock via a dovetail-joint logic, where the shape itself holds the structure together. The collection spans 84 static styles plus one variable font with three axes, covering 325 languages across extended Latin and Cyrillic.

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The design process transferred variability mechanics from the digital world to the analogue: letters were physically cut, separated, and recombined, and the graphic concept emerged from that practice.
Four optical sizes (Caption, Text, Title, Display) are complemented by three x-height variants—Petite at 70%, Standard at 74%, and Grande at 78% of cap height.
The variable font carries three axes covering weight, optical size, and x-height; ascenders and descenders are reduced so lowercase reads visually larger without sacrificing line-spacing comfort.
The collection supports 325 languages, including Bulgarian, Serbian, and Macedonian, and includes arrows, basic mathematical symbols, and alternates for characters such as A and M.