Trial Fonts

Kind Type is a Portland-based foundry, distributing typographic products globally.

To be kind is to listen and look closely. Our typefaces are thoughtful explorations of unique typographic stories or classifications.

The catalogue examines the holistic world that shapes each letterform, and how their systemic language can evolve for modern use.

Missive Serif

3D/Motion by Harrison Gerard

Missive Bead

Francine

Missive Serif

Kickdrum

Kickdrum

3D by Harrison Gerard

Missive Bead

Missive Serif

Missive Bead

3D by Harrison Gerard

Francine

3D by Harrison Gerard

Kickdrum

Francine

Missive Serif

5 Styles Beta

Missive is an ornate serif display family comprising two styles: Missive Serif and Missive Bead.

Missive Serif is an ornate display family, defined by its highly stylized details. Dramatic flares, gooey ball terminals, and flowing calligraphic joins allude to the typeface’s Art Nouveau roots.

Its tall x-height and narrow proportions make the typeface well-suited for graphic, large-scale applications.

The family’s dramatized attributes result in a romantic, decadently ornate, and fervid type family—well-suited for proclamations (encouraged, though not limited to the “love” kind).

Missive Bead

2 Styles Beta

Missive is an ornate serif display family comprising two styles: Missive Serif and Missive Bead.

Missive Bead is a grid-based typeface designed to distill legible display serif forms into a systematic language for beaded embroidery. A grid framework was designed to accommodate the proportions of a “bugle bead”, a type of embroidery bead that is longer than it is wide.

The grid is composed of a horizontal, vertical, and a 15-degree diagonal.

The inclusion of the diagonal axis allows the natural flow of Missive Serif (Missive Bead’s sibling style), to remain present within the structure of the beaded version.

Kickdrum

2 Styles Beta

Kickdrum is an experiment in transfusing the geometric rigidity of 1970s modular letter systems with exaggerated and organic swirls. This amalgamation lends a sense of movement, depth, and vibration to simple forms.

Focal features of the typeface are its curling terminals, spiral counters, and wide characters. Silhouettes of the letters leverage round and square, allowing both forms to coexist rather than compete.

Throughout the typesetting, a rhythm blending curves and straightaways reigns in the off-kilter approach that might be expected from the spiraling shapes.

The Kickdrum family’s design space is currently planned for two styles: a bold, “filled-in” version, and a hairline, “outlined” version. With its spiraling and lightly retro-futuristic structure, Kickdrum is best suited for large-scale applications, such as editorial or poster headlines, branding, and album art.

Francine

4 Styles Beta

Francine is a text family that aims to blend the foundations of the old-style genre with influences of rounded traits found in geometric forms from the '70s phototype-era.

The family distills basic shapes — like circles, squares, and triangles — into an easy-to-read language. By using the skeleton and proportions of 16th century old-style serifs, the silhouette provides a legible baseline for the family. The infusion of Bauhaus-esque geometry appears through the overweight curves, bulbous ball terminals, and rounded letterforms that verge on cartoon-like.

The result is a typeface that balances a professional tone while remaining unapologetically graphic. Through Francine’s ability to interplay readability with its form-forward ethos, the family pairs well with commercial, pop-culture, and editorial applications.

Francine is comprised of four weights. The Regular, Medium, and Bold weights allow for hierarchal relationships in longform paragraphs. The Black weight provides opportunity for a more display-suited headline style.

200px

1.0

Georgiana Darcy

200px

1.0

Regency Jewelry

200px

1.0

Hertfordshire Era

200px

1.0

First Impressions

200px

1.0

Winchester Kitten

200px

1.0

Knickerbocker

200px

1.0

Avg % Swinging

200px

1.0

Softball League

200px

1.0

Wild Pitch Hits

Fonts In Progress

Type design is an intensive, time-consuming process. Our catalogue consists of both Beta and 1.0 version fonts available to license.

Allowing early access to fonts-in-development is an opportunity for both potential users and the foundry. It provides steady revenue to fund ongoing development rather than waiting months (or years!) for a final release.

Due to the developing nature of our work, some fonts may not have every feature your project needs.

If you have particular glyphs, language support, or symbols you’d like to see included in future versions, let us know, and we can prioritize them.

Trial Fonts

Our trial font package includes OTF files of our available typefaces with a limited set of characters, no kerning, and no OpenType features.

Trial fonts are intended for testing purposes only. Use the trial fonts to determine if our typefaces fit your design needs.

By downloading our trial font package, you agree to the terms of our EULA agreement.

Licensing

For commercial use of our typefaces, the purchase of a license is required. Kindly review our EULA Agreement, including all usage guidelines and restrictions, prior to your purchase.

If you are interested in using one of our foundry typefaces not currently available for purchase, please feel welcome to get in touch.

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Type Tester Demo #1