Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit
by tobr on 1/30/2026, 3:19:28 PM
https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/
Comments
by: rda2
It’s cute, and I’m trusting enough to believe them when it says 100% home made, but square images with a strong yellow tint will forever be associated with ChatGPT 4o image generation in my mind. Unfortunately, this might become something like the em-dash—where artists start tweaking their work to look less like the AI’s that are copying them.
1/30/2026, 4:27:32 PM
by: afavour
Really feel like this ought to have been named Wensleydale.<p>(this is awesome)
1/30/2026, 3:46:40 PM
by: xnorswap
Was the crumpet buttered with "I can't believe it's not butter"?<p>( The typeface looks a lot like <a href="https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/i-cant-believe-its-not-butter-original-500g" rel="nofollow">https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/i-cant-believe-i...</a> )
1/30/2026, 3:54:05 PM
by: hamburglar
Is it intentional that the baseline vertical offset doesn’t seem consistent? Text set in this has a sort of up-and-down sloppy effect. Otherwise I love it.<p>Edit: it mostly seems that capitals appear higher than lowercase. It feels like there’s more inconsistency though, like the designer didn’t pay attention to eg the perceived “bottom” of curved characters vs flat-bottom ones.
1/30/2026, 4:13:22 PM
by: barcodehorse
There's a miniscule dent on the top of the capital B that's really bothering me. Idk, I know everyone's a critic, but it just doesnt sit right with me
1/30/2026, 4:40:21 PM
by: shrikant
That's beautiful, I'd love a monospaced variant of this to replace Comic Mono in my IDE/Fira Mono in my terminal. IANA font expert though, would that even be possible?
1/30/2026, 4:17:55 PM
by: imnes
Is there a nerdfont variant?
1/30/2026, 3:50:01 PM
by: zabzonk
Shouldn't there be some holes?
1/30/2026, 4:32:01 PM
by: cush
Fonts are such an underappreciated art form. Love this
1/30/2026, 4:14:41 PM
by: unicorn_cowboy
Very cute and charming!
1/30/2026, 3:53:52 PM
by: maximgeorge
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1/30/2026, 4:17:38 PM