
Mink is a reversed-stress display serif with a variable contrast axis.
Priding itself on an elegant but flamboyant attitude, Mink draws its character from classic serifs — exaggerating their features into dramatic spikes and inverting the conventional stress axis in the spirit of Caslon’s Italian.
TYPE
Typeface Design
TIME
Summer 2019



Perverse Monstrosities
Caslon’s Italian was a major influence for Mink, being described as “perverse”, but done with sureness and confidence. Finding inspiration in this playful but decisively extreme approach, I designed Mink with that sensibility in mind.
