Crimp by Font Club Belgica is a modern revival of a brilliant yet overlooked idea from type history, blending technical precision with contemporary design. Inspired by W.A. Dwiggins’ concept of variable-width characters to improve fixed-width typewriters, Crimp features 50% and 150% glyphs for refined spacing.
Historically, engineering and technical industries relied on rigid, monospaced typefaces like Courier and OCR-A, designed for clarity and machine readability, but these came with visual constraints. Crimp transcends these limitations by incorporating angled, stubbed terminals and half-width spaces, adding a distinctive mechanical flair while enhancing legibility and efficiency.
Crimp supports extended Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek. It is ideal for applications in engineering, aerospace, gaming, and outdoor branding.
Case sensitive forms, standard ligatures, proportional lining figures, proportional oldstyle figures, tabular lining figures, tabular oldstyle figures, ordinals, fractions, denominator, numerator, subscript / inferiors, superscript / superiors, slashed zero, nine stylistic sets
Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Kurdish (lat), Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian (lat), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (lat)