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Comspot
 a rounded, typewriter-flavoured font family with a human touch
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Comspot is a rounded, typewriter-flavoured font family with a human touch. Originally designed as a custom typeface for a Hamburg-based hardware and software reseller, who needed attractive numerals to sell products and a bulletproof license for franchising, Comspot’s nine weights and eighteen styles — razor-thin Hairline to Ultra Black — fulfil every need.

Comspot’s typewriter flavour is strongest in letters like f and t, with their wide middle strokes, and the tighter design of w, M and W, with their repositioned centre joints. Glyphs that would normally cause trouble in monospaced fonts have been carefully balanced for text. Easily-accessed alternates emphasise the font’s typewriter vibe and bring more character to display settings. Where the Roman mixes in monospaced forms, the Italic finds a balance between real Italic and sloped Roman shapes. The subtle rounding of Comspot’s corners increases from Hairline to Ultra, producing fine and elegant light styles and approachable heavy weights.

Comspot has a broad language support for some than 200 languages. Along with using Stylistic Set 01 to unleash glyphs with an extra technical typewriter flavour, Comspot offers a lot of typographic features, such as tabular figures, fractions, superscript or even contextual alternates. There is also a set of individual DIY-Icons like a great big wood axe or a warning triangle, which can add some ease to your projects.

As not all software fully supports OpenType features, we offer two versions of Comspot. Both share the same designs, but Comspot Tec swaps Comspot’s monospace-y stylistic set with some of its default characters. If you’re worried about default encoding, it can matter which version of Comspot you purchase. For everyone else the two character sets can easily be swapped back.

Designed by
Nils Thomsen
in 2017
Specs
Providing 9 weights plus 9 italics + 18 alternates, including 902 glyphs per font and 14 typewriter flavoured alternates
Formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, and woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SansRegularHeadlinesBody TextInterfaceIdentityLatinIndustrialSoftVariable FontItalicsIcons
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Comspot

  • Hairline
  • Hairline Italic
  • Thin
  • Thin Italic
  • ExtraLight
  • ExtraLight Italic
  • Light
  • Light Italic
  • Regular
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium
  • Medium Italic
  • Bold
  • Bold Italic
  • Black
  • Black Italic
  • UltraBlack
  • UltraBlack Italic

Comspot Tec

  • Hairline
  • Hairline Italic
  • Thin
  • Thin Italic
  • ExtraLight
  • ExtraLight Italic
  • Light
  • Light Italic
  • Regular
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium
  • Medium Itlaic
  • Bold
  • Bold Italic
  • Black
  • Black Italic
  • UltraBlack
  • UltraBlack Italic
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 200 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Capital Spacing, Case Sensitive, Contextual Alternates, Denominator, Discretionary Ligatures, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Ligatures, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Old style Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Stylistic Set: Alternate Arrow Two, Stylistic Set: Alternate Arrows One, Stylistic Set: Smart Typography, Stylistic Set: Tabular Width Set, Stylistic Set: Tec Alternates, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures

In-Use & Articles

JobRad rides Comspot
Comspot In Use
German GDV Uses Comspot
Comspot in Use
From Corporate to Public
Making Of Comspot