What is the Baksheesh font?
The Baksheesh family comes in three weights with accompanying italics and small caps.
The catalyst for the development of the typeface came from the desire to create a contemporary family of constructed letterforms built upon a flexible system. The aesthetic of the font is influenced by the characters drawn by Wim Crouwel in 1976 for Olivetti’s typewriter font that could support varying character widths, hence Baksheesh’s faux-monospace appearance. More…
Each of the characters has been designed according to an intricate grid, helping to rationalise the letterforms into a system that can be translated across the various styles. The flexibility of the grid also allows for optical adjustments to be made, for example stroke thinning at junctions and baseline/x-height overshoot for enhanced definition throughout.
Baksheesh is suitable for setting small amounts of text as a distinguishable and legible headline font.
Baksheesh Font families
The Baksheesh includes the following font families:
- Baksheesh Thin
- Baksheesh Thin Expert
- Baksheesh Thin Italic
- Baksheesh Thin Italic Expert
- Baksheesh Regular
- Baksheesh Regular Expert
- Baksheesh Italic
- Baksheesh Italic Expert
- Baksheesh Bold
- Baksheesh Bold Expert
- Baksheesh Bold Italic
- Baksheesh Bold Italic Expert
Baksheesh Preview
Here is a preview of how Baksheesh will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
