Typefaces | Softdrive Foundry

Buy

Protest Grotesk (16 Styles)

Thin Italic

Light Italic

Regular Italic

Book Italic

Medium Italic

Bold Italic

Heavy Italic

Black Italic

Protest Grotesk is a geometric sans built for volume — sharp enough to carry a headline, steady enough to hold body text. Its skeleton comes from the geometric sans-serifs of the 1920s, Kabel and Futura among them, pulled back toward the plainer legibility of Akzidenz Grotesk. Eight weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic on an 11-degree slant. The low contrast keeps it readable at text sizes; the sharpness keeps it loud at display sizes.

Styles: 16
Released: 2025
Characters: 905
Languages: 332

Buy

Protest Grotesk Mono (16 Styles)

Thin Italic

Light Italic

Regular Italic

Book Italic

Medium Italic

Bold Italic

Heavy Italic

Black Italic

Protest Grotesk Mono fixes every character of the family to a single width. Where most monospaces descend from the typewriter or the terminal, this one keeps the geometric build of its proportional sibling — the same eight weights, the same italics on an 11-degree slant. The fixed advance aligns columns without tabular figures and gives running code an even vertical rhythm. Its 729 characters are drawn for data, interfaces, and captions, though the heavier weights hold a headline as readily as the sans does.

Styles: 16
Released: 2025
Characters: 729
Languages: 332

Buy

Lingo (12 Styles)

Thin Italic

Light Italic

Regular Italic

Medium Italic

Bold Italic

Black Italic

Lingo is a workhorse serif — at home in long body copy, confident enough for display. Its proportions take their cue from the transitional romans of the 18th century: low stroke contrast, the warmth of letterpress, and true italics rooted in handwriting rather than sloped uprights. Used plainly, it reads as a classic text face. Switch on the stylistic sets and it turns: ten of them substitute characters from the International Phonetic Alphabet, opening the family up for experimental display work and logotypes.

Styles: 12
Released: 2026
Characters: 979
Languages: 345

365 Grotesk (6 Styles)

Regular

Book

Medium

Bold

ExtraBold

Black

Cidade (1 Style)

Poster Bold

Cidade began as a custom commission for an architecture and urban planning project, drawn alongside Protest Grotesk as its poster counterpart. It is unicase — capitals and lowercase brought to a single height — geometric and near-monolinear, set tight enough that a word reads as one block. Made for posters, covers, and large-format lettering rather than running text. One cut so far, Poster Bold.

Styles: 1
Status: Unreleased
Languages: 249

Typefaces by Softdrive Type-Foundry