For Soma Capone4 cuts · v1.000
Hobnail Stitch
A wide, sturdy display face knitted from real V stitches with gold studs punched through the stroke ends, drawn for Soma Capone's knit masks: Regular and Bold stitch, a Studded cut, a Studs overprint layer, and a simple Rib text cut. A sibling of Hobnail.
- Cuts
- 4+ 1 layer cut
- Glyphs
- 618376 characters
- Features
- 6calt case ccmp ss01
- Axes
- 0static cuts
01Styles
4 cuts + 1 layer · choose one to set it in the sampler02Font sampler
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OpenType
SOMA CAPONE
TryHobnail Stitch Regular
OpenType features in this family
- caltStitch cycle (contextual)214 substitutions · contextualllll nnnn eeeellll nnnn eeee
- caseCase-sensitive forms15 substitutions(-) [A](-) [A]
- ccmpGlyph composition2 substitutions · contextualijij
- ss01Alternate a g l r y5 substitutionsa g l r ya g l r y
- zeroSlashed zero1 substitution01234567890123456789
Left: feature off. Right: on. Substitutions read from the font's GSUB table.
03Layers
one text, stacked in one box04Glyphs
376 characters in 11 Unicode blocks05Information
read from the font files- Designer
- iconstructa
- Made for
- Soma Capone ↗
- Version
- 1.000
- Styles
- 4
- Layer cuts
- 1 · Studs on Regular: stacked in CSS, not text styles
- Glyphs per style
- 618 (2 cuts) · 833 (2 cuts)
- Characters
- 376 mapped to Unicode
- Features
- calt · case · ccmp · ss01 · zero · kern
- Variable axes
- None. Every cut is a static font.
- Metrics
- 1000 upm · cap 700 · x 560 · asc 1060 · desc -300
- Source files
- TTF
- Language support
- English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish / Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Polish, Czech, Turkish
- On this site
- Showcase only. 390 kB of WOFF2 for the preview; nothing to download or license here.
A wide, sturdy display face knitted from real V stitches with gold studs punched through the stroke ends, drawn for Soma Capone's knit masks: Regular and Bold stitch, a Studded cut, a Studs overprint layer, and a simple Rib text cut. A sibling of Hobnail.
- Five cuts: Regular, Bold, Studded, a Studs layer font that overprints Regular exactly, and Rib for text from 24 px.
- Features: kern, mark, mkmk, ccmp, calt (cycles seed variants so repeated letters are never stamped), case, zero (slashed), ss01 (alternate a g l r y).
- Latin only: Basic Latin, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A, arrows, a few symbols and icons (stud, stitch, mask eye) on U+E000 to U+E002.
- Prototype: unhinted, not offered for redistribution.
From Origin: hobnailstitch/README.md, hobnailstitch/DESIGN-BRIEF.md
Known limitations
- Stitch fields are a texture, not a skeleton rendering: edges are ragged by design, so small details (the A apex, the crossbar of H, bars of e and a) read through gaps. Letters read at 48 px and up; the Rib cut is the one for text.
- The Regular and Bold cuts are not meant for text below about 40 px: the stitches clog and turn to grey.
- TTF sizes are 90 to 400 KB because the geometry is heavy; the calt cycle therefore has only 2 variants in Regular, Studded and Studs (3 in Bold and Rib). Accented letters follow their base's seeds.
- Studs layer matches Regular only; Bold has no matching layer (its stitch field and metrics differ).
- The layer font needs two stacked text runs (or a colour-font wrapper) to show colour; used alone it prints only dots. No COLR cut yet.
- Studs are placed by one rule (inside free stroke ends); round letters without free ends get one stud at the upper right.
- Latin only. One weight pair (Regular, Bold), no italic, no variable axes.
- Ampersand, at, section, currency, pilcrow, copyright, registered and the math symbols are first drafts; punctuation made of a single row of stitches (hyphen, equals) looks thin beside the letters.
- Spacing and kerning are computed from outline profiles and checked on proof sheets, not tuned pair by pair.
- Unhinted; gasp smoothing only.
- Name 'Hobnail Stitch' was not cleared against trademarks or font databases.
The designer's own list, copied unchanged from the font's hand-off manifest.
Coverage by Unicode block
- Basic Latin94 / 94
- Latin-1 Supplement94 / 95
- Latin Extended-A128 / 128
- Spacing Modifier Letters8 / 80
- Combining Diacritical Marks15 / 112
- General Punctuation17 / 98
- Currency Symbols1 / 33
- Letterlike Symbols1 / 80
- Arrows10 / 112
- Mathematical Operators5 / 256
- Private Use Area3