Jan Ly

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

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mink typeface in-use sample

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.

mink typeface in-use sample