Mamut
Description
Mamut styles itself as an atypical text face, throwing off the shackles of the garaldes of yore. The text-weight, Cow, has been designed with microsizes in mind; a large x-height, big counters and distinctive dwigginsian cuts to maximise the amount of white space inside the form. The elephantine serifs which give the typeface its name were made with component corners allowing them to contort across the different sizes and weights to optimise legibility across the family. The text weights have a pleasant airiness to them while Bull ExtraBold or Skeleton are perfect for those times you really want to kick up a fuss, there's also a micro in case you havenospace. A perfect alternative for the designer who’s bored of the status quo.
Mamut is a polyglot with support for three scripts, Arabic, Bengali and Latin, and over forty languages. The Latin is a multitasker, packed with everything you’ll ever need; eight weights and four optical sizes, italic and small caps for them all. Lining, titling and oldstyle figures, the full spectrum of punctuation and an ever increasing range of diacritics with plenty of typographic ephemera to boot. The Arabic and the Bengali match the weight count of the latin and the former also comes with a set of ligatures so you don’t have to worry about spacing faux pas.
The typeface has myriad influences, we can see Wolpelike forms and Ungerian principles, however the characters were all based on the lowercase a,
with a string of solved problems leading to the present typeface. Mamut is most at home on left-wing handbills or in the pages of space operas. The forms will fit anywhere you would use a Garalde, though it is the antithesis of these. The human hand is present but the remnants of the past are long forgotten.
