Underscore is an independent type foundry from Finland.
- Commercial retail fonts
- Custom typeface design
- Design and technology consultancy
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Try Constant
A vigorous display family in 7 weights -
Try Quell
A geometric sans family with 24 styles -
Try Jozef
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Try Silta
A humanist sans with 14 styles
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A vigorous display typeface with
distinct features and a hint of retro.
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Quell is a geometric typeface inspired by round and constructed forms,
paired with the dynamic energy of a slanted contrast angle.
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A serif typeface family with modern character and a firm voice.
Other projects
Underscore is also active producing typography, programming and interface design related projects. Here are a few samples.
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QAP custom font
QAP is a novel soda cap turning a bottle of regular tap water into a soda by releasing flavor and bubbles from the screw-on cap. Underscore helped the marketing team in their product launch by fashioning a custom typeface for their use.
Happy and friendly, the brief called for a display font primarily for use in headlines, but with the potential to carry short sentence text as well.
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Fontsampler: An open source Wordpress plugin
Fontsampler is a Wordpress plugin directed primarily at type designers, foundries or resellers using WordPress to showcase their fonts.
The plugin allows users to embed interactive webfont specimens on their site via shortcodes. Users can preview, type with, and switch the webfonts in a preview, as well as use other interface options to manipulate the font sample.
The projects was initially financed through an Indiegogo campaign and is now maintained by Underscore as an open source project.
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Letterflow: Generative typographic experiments
This series of algorithmically created animations is the outcome of some experimentation with particle systems and typography. The same code has been modified to result in ever different visual behaviour rendering these letters.
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Introducing bespoke font Plato Sans
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It demonstrates the seriousness of a newly founded design agency to shape their own branding with a bespoke typeface. Design agency Plato is setting out to use technology and a distributed creative network to make quality design services accessible to companies regardless of their size. To verbalise this dedication to quality in their design projects, […]
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Underscore year one — and what a year it’s been!
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In this past year so many amazing things have happened it is hard to list them all in just one post. With all these wonderful clients, happy customers and positive feedback I felt moved to step back for a second and review what a lucky first year of business it has been! Inaugural typeface releases […]
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From idea to typeface: How are fonts designed?
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Typeface designers regularly face questions about how fonts are created, and rightly so I would think. It is fairly understandable for this obscure profession to appear somewhat mystifying to the vast majority of people — most folks have probably never even pondered the existence of a font or where it might come from. And truth […]
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Is the future of Variable Fonts stuck in the licensing past?
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Nearly two years have passed since the initial introduction of Variable Fonts. This extension to the OpenType font format is receiving a lot of attention, and for good reason. In a nutshell, all styles in a typeface, for example light, regular and bold, can be combined into one font file. Neat. But not only can […]
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Introducing the Silta typeface — A family of fonts for legible interfaces and beyond
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This versatile humanist sans serif is a modern typeface designed for a connected and global world of screen interfaces, online reading and signage. Unmistakable letter shapes, open apertures, and a typographic repertoire to cover over 200 latin based languages make this typeface family a resourceful workhorse. Owing to its Finnish name (translates as “bridge”) it […]
It demonstrates the seriousness of a newly founded design agency to shape their own branding with a bespoke typeface. Design agency Plato is setting out to use technology and a distributed creative network to make quality design services accessible to companies regardless of their size. To verbalise this dedication to quality in their design projects, […] 
In this past year so many amazing things have happened it is hard to list them all in just one post. With all these wonderful clients, happy customers and positive feedback I felt moved to step back for a second and review what a lucky first year of business it has been! Inaugural typeface releases […] 
Typeface designers regularly face questions about how fonts are created, and rightly so I would think. It is fairly understandable for this obscure profession to appear somewhat mystifying to the vast majority of people — most folks have probably never even pondered the existence of a font or where it might come from. And truth […] 
Nearly two years have passed since the initial introduction of Variable Fonts. This extension to the OpenType font format is receiving a lot of attention, and for good reason. In a nutshell, all styles in a typeface, for example light, regular and bold, can be combined into one font file. Neat. But not only can […] 
This versatile humanist sans serif is a modern typeface designed for a connected and global world of screen interfaces, online reading and signage. Unmistakable letter shapes, open apertures, and a typographic repertoire to cover over 200 latin based languages make this typeface family a resourceful workhorse. Owing to its Finnish name (translates as “bridge”) it […] -
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