Cueburn™
Riding the analog-to-digital wave.
Designed by Delve Withrington
Story & Status
Cueburn captures that turning point of the late ’70s and early ’80s: a fleeting time when analog began to give way to digital. This experimental design is a personal attempt to produce something visually evocative of my own early-teen experiences with FM radio, vinyl records, and mixtapes, while welcoming the exciting new technology of CDs, video games, and floppy disks. The name “Cueburn” is radio lingo for when the DJ would position the needle on a record at the optimal starting point to avoid dead air on the radio between songs.
Nostalgia aside, this typeface leverages today‘s Opentype and Variable font technology to foster creative exploration. Use the seven different individual fonts to layer and mix for a variety of fun combinations of color and style — you get to be the DJ. Overlap the concentric outlines to create fascinating patterns and a moire effect that can be adjusted with tracking or kerning to suit your taste.
Cueburn is best used for large display applications (no duh) like posters, album covers, book covers, and headlines.
Features
Additional features include: Case-Sensitive Forms, and Kerning.
Glyphs
Basic Latin 94
Latin-1 Supplement 82
Latin Extended-A 10
Spacing Modifier Letters 8
Combining Diacritical Marks 13
Greek and Coptic 1
General Punctuation 16
Currency Symbols 1
Letterlike Symbols 1
Mathematical Operators 3
Geometric Shapes 2
Alphabetic Presentation Forms 2
Additional Glyphs 8
Cueburn supports 201 languages. View our language support page to see which.