Polemic
Polemic is a bold, graffiti-inspired display font built for expressive lettering with depth and attitude.
Its shapes are inflated and fluid, borrowing from throw-ups and street pieces, with a rhythm that feels fast, confident and hand-driven. The letterforms are heavy but playful, designed to lock together naturally while still leaving room for character and movement.
The family is constructed as a 13-layer system, allowing colors, outlines, shines, highlights and overlaps to be stacked for complex graffiti-style effects. You can build everything from quick tags to more elaborate pieces by mixing styles, adjusting contrast, or stripping it back to a clean single layer.
Activate *Contexual Alternates* in your software (Adobe, Office, etc.) to get an automatic overlapping effect.
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.
Polemic was hand-drawn by Mans Greback with graffiti in mind, but also with typographic structure and balance at its core. The goal was to capture the spontaneity of street lettering while keeping the system flexible and precise enough for professional typographic work, letting you shape your own expression.
Styles
- RegularPolemic Regular
- BlackPolemic Black
- BackgroundPolemic Background
- ForegroundPolemic Foreground
- HighlightPolemic Highlight
- OutlinePolemic Outline
- Outline BoldPolemic Outline Bold
- Outline ThinPolemic Outline Thin
- OverlapPolemic Overlap
- Overlap BoldPolemic Overlap Bold
- Overlap ShinePolemic Overlap Shine
- Overlap Shine BoldPolemic Overlap Shine Bold
- ShinePolemic Shine
Technical
- Glyphs
- 954 · 724 characters
- Formats
- OTF
- OpenType features
- Kerning, Standard ligatures, Contextual alternates, 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