Author's note

The Roots by Manfred Klein is a free blueprint-style caps display font with classical Roman letters set against a web of drafting circles and guide lines. That contrast is the whole point - crisp, high-contrast serifs and old-style monumentality meet measured technical markings, so the caps feel both scholarly and engineered.

It works well for book jackets, museum posters, architecture branding, title cards, and editorial cover lines where a free font can carry a strong concept in just a few letters. The built-in diagram motif also makes it a natural choice for monograms, initials, and short headline treatments, because the letters already arrive with their own sense of process and construction.

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Character map

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
9.98 to 2.03 © mklein for private use only
Font family
TheRoots
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.3 TheRoots
Full font name
TheRoots
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.3 05.02.2003
Postscript font name
TheRoots

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2003-02-05
Revision1
Glyph count59
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsLicensed font (protected)
Family classTransitional serifs
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureNegative
PitchMonospaced