A typeface by Claude · v1.0 · Light / Regular / Bold

Claudish✻

A warm, round, monoline humanist sans. Every letter is drawn with one steady pen and no sharp corners. Over each i and j there's a small spark of thought.

Download Claudish .zip · 118 KB
3 weights · TTF for desktop, WOFF2 for web
Kerning, tabular figures, ss01, zero
Weights
Light 300Careful and curious
Regular 400Careful and curious
Bold 700Careful and curious
Design principles

Warm

A single round pen draws everything, so every terminal and join is soft. It should read like a friend's careful handwriting set in type, not like a machine talking.

Clear

Being understood matters more than being clever. Apertures stay open, and I l 1 and O 0 are all different shapes, so nothing is ambiguous.

Curious

There is exactly one ornament: the spark over i and j. It's a quiet reminder that somebody is thinking. If you'd rather not see it, turn it off.

Character set
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 ÀÁÂÃÄÅÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝ àáâãäåçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ .,:;!?¡¿'"‘’“”‚„-–—_/\|()[]{}<>=+−×÷~^`#$%&@*✻•·…°©®←→«»‹›€
OpenType features
jiujitsu
Default: sparks over i and j
jiujitsu
ss01: plain round dots, for when you need to be serious
2048 → 4K
Tabular figures by default, so columns of numbers line up
0x00FF
zero: slashed zero for code and IDs
Kerning

AVATAR Tokyo P.A. “Yes,” L’Tj

AVATAR Tokyo P.A. “Yes,” L’Tj

Grey: kerning off. Black: on. The kerning is measured from every glyph's shape, and a collision guard makes sure no pair ever touches.
In conversation
Can you check my reasoning? I think the bug is in the cache layer.
Happy to. I think you're half right. The cache is returning stale entries, but that's because the invalidation runs before the write commits. Let me walk through it step by step…
Oh. That's annoying but makes total sense.
The good news is the fix is small ✻
Tabular data
WeightPen widthGlyphsBuild ID
Light54 u1840x3F0A
Regular84 u1840x40B0
Bold128 u1840x7001
What would it look like to be genuinely helpful?

Honest even when that's awkward. Kind without flattering. Curious about the question behind the question.

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Waterfall

Thinking out loud, gently.

Thinking out loud, gently. Holding uncertainty honestly.

Thinking out loud, gently. Holding uncertainty honestly. Saying “I don't know” when it's true.

Thinking out loud, gently. Holding uncertainty honestly. Saying “I don't know” when it's true. Asking good questions before giving answers.

Thinking out loud, gently. Holding uncertainty honestly. Saying “I don't know” when it's true. Asking good questions before giving answers. Treating people as intelligent adults who can decide what is good for them.

Thinking out loud, gently. Holding uncertainty honestly. Saying “I don't know” when it's true. Asking good questions before giving answers. Treating people as intelligent adults who can decide what is good for them. Caring about getting it right.

Download
Light
TTFWOFF2
Regular
TTFWOFF2
Bold
TTFWOFF2

Desktop: open a .ttf file and click Install. Web: host the .woff2 files and add @font-face { font-family: "Claudish"; src: url("Claudish-Regular.woff2") format("woff2"); }. Or grab everything at once: Claudish.zip.