Hop Typeface

Hop Typeface — Variable font 2 axes. Weight 100–900 controls weights / Custom 0–100 controls rounded corners

The Hop variable font is a tribute to the Impact font (designed by Geoffrey Lee in 1965 and published by Stephenson Blake — UK). The most knowed font-in-use of Impact for me is the title of Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982).

Blade Runner movie — Title set in Impact font. 1982

To bring something different on the same font genre contemporary or not, we worked on some calligraphic features in details, like the R + the connections between bowls and stems + the attack of ascendants and vertical stems. We, also, made a Rounded and conforatble companion!
Working on different weights has bring also something cool specially in the rounded or semi-rounded version because the calligraphic features are still visible in the lighter weights and until we hit the 80 unit of the custom slider.

Hop Standard Regular where you can see the calligraphics features — The bottom left stroke of the R and its connection to the bowl, the connections between vertical stems and attack of the bowls.

Hop Rounded Black is the most boldest style of Hop Rounded. The corners are fully rounded and the calligraphics features are still present.

Hop typeface is an ‘Impact’ inspired font style. Two families are available: Hop Standard for a strong and straight letterforms. Hop Rounded for a polished and sweet sensations. All offering a large range of weights and ± polished corner if playing with the Custom ‘cstm’ axis.

More in details through differents weights and rounded corner values.

Hop Custom instance cut. It means the Custom axe value has been set on 60 for a Medium weight and make font appears slightly rounded. You can set this style for example on our shop to buy it without to have to buy the full variable font.

Hop alternates forms

A bunch of letters can be suddenly raised to the extra top, they are hidden on the Alt Hop ss04 (Stylistics set 4 from the OpenType software window).
The a (ss01, ss02) has 2 altenatives, one for the the t (ss03) and one for the & (ss06). Then a Slim set (ss05) containing slim punctuations and accents for a big contrast in bolder weight.

The Alt Hop (ss04) is one of the alternate set availbale to bring the lowercase to the extra top.

The Alt Hop alternates in composition example.

Other alternate has been designed like for the ‘&’, a slim set for punctuation and accent and two differents ‘a’, ‘t’.

The Hop Families

Aside the variable-font, in a static way 14 styles has been pre-defined order to 2 families
Hop Standard and Hop Rounded:

Hop Standard fam (sterly) ||| Hop Rounded fam (sweet)

Annoucement of the Hop Typeface released on typefaces.pizza

Hop Typeface in brief:

• Rounded or not to be? That is the question.
  - “Rounded or not, here I come. Gonna find the font and make the font want me.” (The Fugees, Pizza Remix™, ©2023)
  - The Prada or ITC Tiffany R style
  - Where has Impact gone?
  - Blade Runner title Impact font
  - Variable font 2 axes
  - Not so much alternates LOL
  - A Tribe Called Quest streaming boom during 2022.

TRUE FACT: Adrien worked on this font while listen Old School Hip-Hop and The Hop from A Tribe Called Quest has largely inspired this name. Thank you for your understanding.

Thanks for reading!

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Design: Adrien Midzic — PizzaTypefaces
Production: PizzaTypefaces