Poetsen One, designed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, is a free rounded sans serif with a dense, bold, cheerful silhouette. Broad strokes and slightly uneven curves soften the letters.
The soft, swollen shapes echo simple cut-paper illustration, making the font a natural fit for children's book covers and playful food packaging. It also suits festival posters and casual merchandise, where the very compact forms can supply a friendly, handmade-looking title. In editorial design, its chunky curves can tie a cover line to colorful spot illustrations or bold flat graphics.
Copyright (c) 2012, Pablo Impallari (www.impallari.com|impallari@gmail.com), Rodrigo Fuenzalida (www.rfuenzalida.com), with Reserved Font Name Poetsen.
Inspired by the hand painted signs in supermarkets, and the roman structures of the classical alphabets. Poetsen is a display font, but it's not just intended to be used on big 'straight to the eye' titles. Since it has a large x height, it can be used on short paragraphs in relatively small bodies of text too.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2012-11-11
Revision1
Glyph count459
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classNo classification
WeightBold
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals