[3L|3LI|3R|3RI|3B|3BI|4L|4LI|4R|4RI|4B|4BI]
[5L|5LI|5R|5RI|5B|5BI|7L|7LI|7R|7RI|7B|7BI]

Cypher is a technological looking font that attempts to employ the Gestalt principal of closure in it's design. It may, at larger sizes look like some sort of code or a bunch of dots and dashes, but when viewed at smaller sizes it falls together into legible words.

The narrowest form of this font family was first inspired by an experiment to try to make a legible upper and lower alphabet with the smallest possible grid that would still describe the letterforms. The original conclusion was that it could be done in a 3x6 grid. This made a fun design exercise, but it makes a lousy font. The grid was expanded a bit for aesthetic reasons, but not restricted too severely and so occasionally goes wider for the certain letterforms. From this a whole family of widths and weights was born, and rather than simply obliquing for italics, a true italic of sorts was created.

Cypher is a versatile family of 24 fonts—4 widths, each with 3 weights and their accompanying italics.

Cypher 3: Light | Light Italic | Regular |
Regular Italic | Bold | Bold Italic

Cypher 4: Light | Light Italic | Regular |
Regular Italic | Bold | Bold Italic

Cypher 5: Light | Light Italic | Regular |
Regular Italic | Bold | Bold Italic

Cypher 7: Light | Light Italic | Regular |
Regular Italic | Bold | Bold Italic

Cypher type specimen PDF(504K).

This font is available from Typeco at MyFonts.com.