Backlane

Backlane is a bold graffiti-style display font inspired by street lettering and painted walls.

Its rounded shapes, heavy outlines and playful proportions give it a loud yet friendly presence. The letters feel hand-drawn but controlled, with a smooth flow that keeps words readable even when they stretch wide. Backlane carries a sense of motion, like a quick tag caught mid-spray, balanced with enough structure to work cleanly in digital layouts.

Backlane is built as a stackable font family, with multiple layers designed to sit perfectly on top of each other. By combining styles such as Regular, Outline, Shadow, Inner, Shine, and Black, you can build depth and texture with precision. The layers invite experimentation with color, from classic graffiti contrasts to soft tonal blends. Bright fills paired with dark outlines create strong impact, while subtle shadows and highlights add volume and a sense of light. Muted base colors with sharp accents can give the lettering a worn, urban feel, while vibrant combinations bring out its playful energy.

The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more automatic and manual features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europa to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Designed by Måns Grebäck, Backlane explores expressive letterforms rooted in urban culture, focusing on clarity and rhythm rather than excess. It is drawn to feel natural and confident, with details that reveal themselves the longer you look.

Styles

• RegularBacklane Regular
• ShineBacklane Shine
• ShadowBacklane Shadow
• BlackBacklane Black
• BoldBacklane Bold
• InnerBacklane Inner
• MediumBacklane Medium
• OutlineBacklane Outline
• Outline ThinBacklane Outline Thin

Technical

Glyphs

652 · 724 characters

Formats

OTF

OpenType features

Kerning, Standard ligatures, Fractions, Oldstyle figures, Lining figures, Tabular figures, Case-sensitive forms, Ordinals, Superscript, Subscript, Localized forms, 2 stylistic sets

Language support

Latin: Western European, Central European, Baltic, Romanian, Vietnamese

Version

1.000