Decutto font

Decutto is a neo-grotesque that packs the Marionette formula and some blackletter ideas into a low-contrast sans serif design. Its name plays on the phrases “off cut” and “cut to” which express the key feature – the contemporary legible letter shape is decorated with cut carved edges and counters, giving the typeface crisp and simplistic look, like that of an old minted coin.

The letter shape has pronounces features of the William Dwiggins’ M-formula that makes the overall texture sharper and creates some visual contrast between the rounded outer black shape and the squared inner white counter shape. This simplification makes the text clear and sharp at a small body size and somewhat mannered at a heading size. The typeface also received some features of blackletter, such as diagonal calligraphic strokes in uppercases, a modest triangular serif in the upper left corner of lowercases, and thickening at the end of the ascenders and descenders.

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

Languages: 500+

Glyphs: 1917

Hinting: Manual PostScript

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

Stylistic Set 02 “Sharp period”: All period symbols are replaced with its sharp alternate version rotated 45 degrees.

Stylistic Set 03 “Sans Serif Capitals”: ITUY capitals (and their versions with diacritical marks) lose horizontal serifs.

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

Case Sensitive Forms: ()[]{}‹›«»-–—•·#%‰@ and Arrows are centered on capitals. Oldstyle figures are replaced with Lining figures.

Lining Figures: 0123456789 #%‰. Figures are the same height as uppercase letters (cap height). Used by default.

Oldstyle Figures: 0123456789 #%‰. Designed to work with lowercase letters.

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.

Slashed Zero: Lining and Oldstyle 0 figures are replaced with a dotted zero.

Discretionary Ligatures: Th

Localized Forms: 23 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: Diacritical marks positioned for Extended Latin and Hebrew characters.

Initial Forms: Feature required to process a shapes of the Arabic language.

Medial Forms: Feature required to process a shapes of the Arabic language.

Terminal Forms: Feature required to process a shapes of the Arabic language.

Required Ligatures: Feature required to process a shapes of the Arabic language.

Supported languages

Arabic: Arabic, Kurdish, Malay (Jawi), Pashto, Persian (Farsi, Dari), Talysh, Urdu, Uyghur

Hebrew: Hebrew (Modern)

Greek: Greek (Modern)

Mkhedruli: Georgian

Cyrillic: Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aleut, Altai, Avar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chaplino, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Dargwa, Dungan, Enets, Erzya, Even, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Kazakh, Khalkha, Khanty, Kildin Sámi, Komi, Koryak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgian, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Mordvinic, Nenets, Ossetian, Romanian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Siberian Tatar, Tabasaran, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urum, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut (Sakha)

Latin Europe: Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arvanitika, Asturian, Balkan Romani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cimbrian, Colognian (Kölsch), Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jèrriais, Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), Kalaallisut, Karelian, Kashubian, Kven, Ladin, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Manx, Megleno-Romanian, Mirandese, Montenegrin, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Picard, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Prussian, Romani, Romanian, Romansh, Rusyn, Sami (Inari, Lule, Northern, Southern, Pite, Skolt, Ume), Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene (Slovenian), Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German, Tosk, Venetian, Veps, Võro, Walloon, Walser, Welsh

Latin Asia: Amis, Ao, Asu, Atayal, Azerbaijani, Falam, Hakha Chin (Lai), Hani, Hmu (Qiandong Miao), Karakalpak, Khasi, Kurdish, Mizo, Nagamese (Naga Pidgin), Oroqen, Talysh, Tatar, Tedim, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Zaza

Latin Oceania: Acehnese, Anuta, Arrernte, Balinese, Batak, Bikol, Bislama, Buginese, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chuukese, Cook Islands Māori (Rarotongan), Drehu, Fijian, Filipino, Gilbertese (Kiribati), Gooniyandi, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Indonesian, Javanese, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Madurese, Malaysian Malay, Māori, Marquesan, Marshallese, Meriam, Minangkabau, Murrinh-Patha, Ngiyampaa, Niuean, Noongar, Palauan, Paluan, Pijin, Pintupi, Pohnpeian, Rotokas, Samoan, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Toba Batak, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tuvaluan, Uab Meto (Dawan), Ulithian, Wallisian, Waray, Warlpiri, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Yapese, Yindjibarndi

Latin Africa: Acheron, Afar, Afrikaans, Aghem, Aja, Akan, Bafia, Bagirmi, Bambara, Baoulé, Bari, Bariba, Basaa, Bemba, Bena, Berba (Biali), Boko, Bono (Abron), Bushi, Cape Verdean Creole, Central Kilimanjaro, Central Yambasa (Yangben), Chewa (Nyanja), Chokwe, Comorian, Dagaare, Dagbani, Dangme, Dendi, Dholuo, Dinka, Dongolawi (Andaandi), Duala, Dyula, Edo (Bini), Embu, Ewe, Ewondo, Fante, Fon, Fula (Borgu Fulfulde, Maasina Fulfulde, Nigerian Fulfulde), Ga’anda, Gen, Gonja, Gusii, Hausa, Igbo, Jola, Kabiyè, Kabyle, Kako, Kamba, Kanuri, Kaonde, Keiyo (Elgeyo, Kalenjin), Kenzi, Khoekhoe (Nama), Kiga, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi (Rundi), Kissi, Kituba, Kongo, Konjo, Koyra Chiini, Koyraboro Senni, Kpelle, Krio, Kwanyama, Kulango, Kwasio, Limba, Lingala, Lobi, Lozi, Luba-Katanga, Luba-Kasai (Tshiluba), Luchazi (Nyemba), Luhya (Luyia), Luo, Maasai, Makhuwa, Makonde, Makwe, Malagasy, Maninka, Maore, Mauritian Creole, Mbelime, Mende, Meru, Meta’, Miyobe, Mooré (Mossi), Mundang, Mwani, Nateni, Ndebele, Ndonga, Ngiemboon, Ngomba, Nkore, Nobiin, Nso (Lamnso), Nuer, Nyamwezi, Nzima, Onĕipŏt, Oromo, Otuho, Ovambo, Pedi, Pherá (Xwela), Pulaar, Pular, Rangi, Rombo, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sena, Seychellois Creole, Shambala, Shilha (Tachelhit), Shilluk, Shona, Soga, Somali, Soninke, Sotho (Nothern, Southern), Sukuma, Susu, Swahili, Swazi, Taita, Tammari, Tasawaq, Teso, Temne, Tiv, Tonga, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Twi, Umbundu, Vai, Venda, Waama, Waci, Wasa, West Kilimanjaro, Wolof, Xhosa, Yao, Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu

Latin South America: Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri (Harákmbut), Antillean Creole, Apinayé, Arabela, Asháninka, Ashéninka, Awa Pit (Cuaiquer), Awetí, Aymara, Bora, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Caribbean Hindustani, Cashibo, Chaʼpalaa (Chachi), Chayahuita, Chiltepec Chinantec, Cofán, Ese Ejja, Garifuna, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Huastec, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Jamaican, Kaingang, Kaqchikel, Kashinawa, K’iche’, Mam, Mapuche (Mapudungun), Matsés, Miskito, Murui Huitoto, Nahuatl, Nawat (Pipil), Nomatsiguenga, Northwestern Otomi, Ojitlán Chinantec, Páez, Papantla Totonac, Papiamento, Purépecha, Qʼeqchiʼ, Quechua, Saramaccan, Secoya, Seri, Shipibo, Shuar, Silacayoapan Mixtec, Siona, Sranan Tongo, Ticuna, Toba (Maskoy), Tojolabal, Totontepec Mixe, Tsafiki, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Urarina, Waorani (Sabela), Wayuu (Guajiro), Xavante, Yagua, Yaminawa, Yanesha’, Yanomamö, Yucatec Maya, Záparo, Zapotec

Latin North America: Abenaki, Aleut, Chickasaw, Gwich’in, Hän, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Innu-aimun (Montagnais), Lakota, Mi’kmaq, Mohawk, Munsee, Muscogee (Creek), Navajo, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Unami, Zuni

Latin Constructed: Esperanto, Ido, Interglossa, Interlingua, Interlingue (Occidental), Klingon, Latino sine Flexione, Lojban, Novial, Slovio, Volapük

The promo images used a woodcut illustration from the Dance of Death series of Hans Holbein the Younger, an elements from English medieval minted coins, and an illustration and poetry of Michael Rafailyk featured on a Ukrainian poster