Author's note

BM Sham Garde is a free experimental geometric display font built around abrupt shifts between hairline strokes and solid, oversized forms. Its clean circles, straight uprights, and steep diagonals create a stark modernist silhouette, with sharply cut negative spaces adding tension to the heavier letters.

That modernist, poster-driven character makes it especially convincing for cultural events and fashion campaigns. Album packaging and magazine covers can use the changing stroke weight to turn a name or phrase into an assertive piece of graphic structure. Across these settings, the link is its contrast between spare linear drawing and dense blocks, a device that lets the lettering echo grids, bars, and angular photography.

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BM Sham Garde font character map

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BM Sham Garde font character map: Basic Latin, page 1

Glyphs in the BM Sham Garde font — Basic Latin, page 1

Basic font information

Font family
BM Sham Garde
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
1.000;pyrs;BMShamGarde
Full font name
BM Sham Garde
Postscript font name
BMShamGarde

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2009-12-24
Revision1
Glyph count103
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed
Family classSans serif
WeightSemi-light
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced