Hel: A 3-Axis Variable Font
The web is not short of shonky, broken looking sans-serifs—some even by design. But lo-fi shouldn’t mean lo-quality. I want my bands to sound nasty, gritty, shambolic, even unbalanced, but in just the right way. There needs to be deliberation in the destruction. Otherwise they’re just plain… bad.
It’s with this in mind that I set about creating the ultimate degraded sans-serif: Hel. I happen to be in Iceland right now, and Hel is norse for the underworld. Hel is a three-axis (_count ‘em!_) variable font, giving you fine-grained control over the letterforms’ distortion.
(alt text = cycling through the three different axes at different rates)
Features
Hel covers letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation. It also includes a number of contextual alternates for paired letters.
(alt text = each L in pairings of Ls looks different)
Hel is a font for disseminating anti-statist handbills and designing dirty, DIY web pages. The End User License Agreement (EULA) prevents you from using the font in a racist, homophobic, sexist or in general discriminating and hateful context. If you break the agreement, you will not receive a refund.