Hearthscale Rebellion

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A brush typeface for wordmarks and short phrases. Free to download.

Why I made it

I made this font for Hearthscale, an app that lets you run AI models on your own computer and own your intelligence. Most AI runs on the servers of a few big companies, like Anthropic and Google, so running it yourself feels a little rebellious.

Rebellions tend to look a certain way: graffiti, paint smeared across a wall, broad brush strokes put down quickly by hand. That’s the feeling I wanted for the lettering. I looked for a font like that and couldn’t find one, so I made my own.

How the letters behave

The letters change shape depending on where they sit and what they’re next to. There are more than 190 alternate forms, and the font picks between them as you type.

That’s what makes a word look hand-drawn rather than typed. Capitals grow at the start of a word, the S pulls in its arm before a lowercase letter, and strokes overlap and overhang their neighbours.

Weights

Light, Regular, Bold and Black all start from the same strokes, thinned or thickened with a round brush, so the frayed ends stay frayed. Regular shows the brush best, so that’s where I’d start.

Languages

It covers every European language written in the Latin alphabet, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian in Cyrillic, and modern Greek. The Cyrillic and Greek letters are built from strokes of the same capitals, so they keep the same frayed ends. Anything else falls back to another font.

Details

Download

Download the font. Made for Hearthscale.