Hagrid 24 fonts + 4 variables

Crypto-typography - the passion for unknown, weird and unusual character shapes - is a disease commonly affecting type designers. Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini has celebrated it in this typeface family, aptly named **Hagrid** after the half-blood giant with a passion for cryptozoology described by R. K. Rowling in her Harry Potter books. Extreme optical corrections, calligraphic counter-spaces, inverted contrast, over-the-top overshoots: all the inventions that abound in vernacular and experimental typography have been lovingly collected in this mongrel sans serif family, carefully balancing quirky solutions and solid grotesque design.
**Hagrid** is a typeface designed for **editorial & display use**, bringing dynamism to the printed and digital page thanks to its extreme contrast and unique details. It has been developed in a range of **six display weights** ranging from the monolinear and more traditional thin to the expressive heavy weight. For better readability in small sizes and on the web, a companion **text family** has been developed, with a slightly different selection of weights, wider metrics, and fine adjustments to keep the dynamic expressivity of the design without sacrificing legibility. This is evident in the design of italics: while the display italics sport a cursive feel with calligraphic terminals to lowercase letters, the text design is more restrained, with a more classical geometric grotesque slanted look.
Given the crypto-typographer love for foreign specimens of letters, special care has been put into making Hagrid ready for multilingual projects, giving it an **extended character sets covering over two hundred languages that use latin, cyrillic and arabic alphabets** and adding a selected range of **Open Type features** to handle alternate forms and stylistic sets.


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