Chutz font

Chutz is an audacious horizontal-contrast slanted typeface with horizontally oriented strokes developed for Jewish brand Chutzpah of the Feisty Foods company based in Brooklyn, New York.

The typeface has three purposes – to feel Jewish, audacious, and delicious. To convey the feeling of Hebrew in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic script, such means as horizontal contrast (opposite of Latin) where horizontal strokes are thicker than vertical ones, and horizontally directed calligraphic strokes inherent in Hebrew script which make the letters more square, are used. To convey associations of deliciousness and to look like dough (in bolder weights), the design received soft details and rounding and saturated typographic color. To convey boldness and audacity, the structure of the letters received a different angle of slant for different letters. For example, most letters have a Latin slant (to the right), and other letters such as CGOQabcdegopqy have a typical Hebrew slant (to the left). Such a combination of different slants gives the typeface a complexity of the character ready for unexpected daring actions.

Scripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian, Arabic, Hebrew

Languages: 500+. The list of supported languages: https://michaelrafailyk.com/chutz

Glyphs: 1938

Hinting: Static fonts contain Manual PostScript hinting. Variable font doesn't contain hinting.

Variable font: Chutz Variable has weight axis and includes hundreds of weights ranging from Regular (400) to Black (900), so feel free to choose the most accurate weight that you need, using a slider or CSS.

Stylistic Alternates: ABCDEFIKMNPQRTZ ciknrsty ĆČĈÇḈĊḰǨĶḲḴŤŢṰȚṪṬṮŦŹŽẐŻẒẔ ćčĉċçḉıíìȉĭǐîïỉȋīĩḯịįḭḱǩķḳḵńǹňņṋṅṇṉñŕȑřŗṙṛȓṟṝɍśšŝşșṡṣṩṥṧťţṱțẗṫṭṯŧýỳŷÿẏỵỷȳẙỹ

Contextual Alternates: Hundreds of letter combinations (such as is, ku, ri, ry, th, tx, Ch, KA, TZ, OD and many others) have automatically substituted alternate versions, which makes the texture of type more solid.

Stylistic Set 01 “Arrows”: Please read the Description.txt file to see the usage examples.

Ordinals: adehnorst.

Superscript, Subscript, Numerator, Denominator: 0123456789.

Fractions: ¼½¾⅐⅑⅒⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚⅛⅜⅝⅞⅟ (precomposed). Any other fractions (even those typed through a slash) will also be displayed correctly, with the automatic replacement to Numerator + fraction + Denominator.

Standard Ligatures: fi fl

Case conversion for monotonic Greek: ΆΈΉΊΌΎΏ. Greek uppercase accented characters lose their tonos accent and retain only dieresis in All Caps and Small Caps modes. Turned on by default. If you need tonos accents in All Caps then turn off Contextual Alternates (calt) feature.

Localized Forms: 29 character substitutions for Azeri, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch, German, Kazakh, Macedonian, Moldavian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Tatar, Turkish.

Glyph Composition/Decomposition (Diacritics): Extended Latin and based Vietnamese set of diacritics (562 characters). Precomposed.

Mark Positioning: 17 Hebrew diacritical marks positioned on the 27 letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

The promo images used photos of Ola Rafailyk, and photos of Marta Dzedyshko, Josh Sorenson from Pexels.