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Kickspray

A fast, heavy display italic for powersports and racing graphics: straight-edged capitals with a plate cut, speed slices trailing every letter, a stencil cut, a Speed trail layer that overprints Black exactly, and an upright Utility Condensed.

Cuts
6+ 1 layer cut
Glyphs
617406 characters
Features
14case ccmp dlig dnom
Axes
0static cuts

01Styles

6 cuts + 1 layer · choose one to set it in the sampler

02Font sampler

type into it
Alignment
OpenType
CESSPOOL 27
TryKickspray Black Italic

OpenType features in this family

  • casecase38 substitutions()+-/<=>[\]{}~¡«¬­±·»¿×÷–—•‹›←()+-/<=>[\]{}~¡«¬­±·»¿×÷–—•‹›←
  • ccmpGlyph composition2 substitutions · contextualijij
  • dligDiscretionary ligatures4 substitutions-> <- << >>-> <- << >>
  • dnomdnom10 substitutions01234567890123456789
  • numrnumr10 substitutions01234567890123456789
  • sinfsinf10 substitutions01234567890123456789
  • ss01Number plate figures10 substitutions01234567890123456789
  • subssubs10 substitutions01234567890123456789
  • supssups10 substitutions01234567890123456789
  • tnumTabular figures10 substitutions01234567890123456789
  • zerozero1 substitution00

Left: feature off. Right: on. Substitutions read from the font's GSUB table.

03Layers

one text, stacked in one box

04Glyphs

406 characters in 15 Unicode blocks

05Information

read from the font files
Designer
iconstructa
Version
1.000
Styles
6
Layer cuts
1 · Speed on Black Italic: stacked in CSS, not text styles
Glyphs per style
617 (3 cuts) · 549 (1 cut) · 494 (2 cuts)
Characters
406 mapped to Unicode
Features
case · ccmp · dlig · dnom · numr · sinf · ss01 · ss02 · ss03 · subs · sups · tnum · zero · kern
Variable axes
None. Every cut is a static font.
Metrics
1000 upm · cap 700 · x 540 · asc 960 · desc -260
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. 153 kB of WOFF2 for the preview; nothing to download or license here.

A fast, heavy display italic for powersports and racing graphics: straight-edged capitals with a plate cut, speed slices trailing every letter, a stencil cut, a Speed trail layer that overprints Black exactly, and an upright Utility Condensed.

  • Seven cuts: Regular, Bold and Black Italic, Stencil Italic, Speed Italic (a trail layer printed under Black) and two weights of an upright Utility Condensed.
  • Features: kern, mark/mkmk, ccmp, case, tnum, zero, ss01 (race-number plate figures), ss02 (solid forms without slices), ss03 (alternates a R Q M y), sups/subs/sinf/numr/dnom, dlig (arrows and chevrons).
  • Latin only: Basic Latin, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A, Romanian comma-below letters, punctuation, currency, arrows, chevrons, triangles and flags.
  • Unhinted prototype with straight-segment outlines only; the slices are meant for 40 px and up; not offered for redistribution.

From Origin: kickspray/README.md, kickspray/DESIGN-BRIEF.md

Known limitations

  • Every outline is straight-edged: bowls are octagonal by design, so there are no curves to refine; at very large sizes the chamfers read as geometry, not as drawn rounds.
  • Slices and stencil gaps split glyphs into several contours (fontbakery contour_count warns and Speed trail contours differ from Black); below roughly 40 px the Black and Bold slits fill in, so use ss02 or Utility there.
  • The italic is the only slope of the display cuts. The skeleton is drawn upright then leaned 13 degrees about y=300; the italic-specific forms are the single-storey a and g, the t and f crossbars, the plate-cut corners and the slice rows, not a second redraw of every letter.
  • Speed trails run left of the advance (up to 420 units beyond it): containers that clip overflow will crop the first trails. Speed registers only with Black (Stencil, Regular, Bold have different advances).
  • Speed is not a colour font (no COLR): two stacked text layers are needed. A few tiny residual nubs remain at the ends of some trails.
  • ss01 plate figures differ from the default figures only modestly (tabular width, a footed 1, slightly heavier stems); they are not a separate race-number design.
  • Stencil only opens glyphs that have counters; letters without islands (E F T L S ...) are unchanged from Black.
  • ss02 does not exist in the Utility cuts (they have no slices) and ss03 there swaps the other way (Utility's default a is double-storey; ss03 gives the single-storey one).
  • Kerning is measured from geometry and verified on sample pairs with HarfBuzz; there was no hand optical pass on accented capitals, ß, fractions or most punctuation. Letters, figures, special letters and 23 punctuation marks are kerned; accented letters follow their base.
  • Not tuned for: Windows GDI aliased rendering (unhinted), Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese (no stacked marks), all-caps tracking tables (use case and add letter-spacing).
  • fontbakery: universal and opentype profiles have 1 FAIL in each (opentype/STAT/ital_axis, missing-roman: the display family is italic-only by design) and the waived warnings listed in README.md.

The designer's own list, copied unchanged from the font's hand-off manifest.

Coverage by Unicode block

  • Other1
  • Basic Latin94 / 94
  • Latin-1 Supplement94 / 95
  • Latin Extended-A128 / 128
  • Latin Extended-B6 / 208
  • Spacing Modifier Letters8 / 80
  • Combining Diacritical Marks15 / 112
  • General Punctuation18 / 98
  • Superscripts and Subscripts17 / 42
  • Currency Symbols1 / 33
  • Arrows10 / 112
  • Mathematical Operators6 / 256
  • Geometric Shapes4 / 96
  • Miscellaneous Symbols2 / 256
  • Dingbats2 / 192

06In use

the brands set in it

07Pairs with

6 of the other 20 faces on this site