Piston
A bold design inspired by the Industrial Revolution.
Designed by Steven Skaggs
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Ezekiel 25:17
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the Inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness .
Story
Victorian revivals and inspirations will often seize on that period’s tendency toward florid decoration. However, the times were also the final surge of the industrial revolution, a time that witnessed the ultimate development in steam, diesel, and oil engines in myriad shapes and sizes.
Piston skillfully captures this indomitable age, boundless in its faith in the technologies of iron and steel, and tempers it with neo-classical details like the verticality of neo-gothic windows and finely-crafted finials. It’s all here in the brute strength of the verticals, the blackness of tight setting, and contrasting delicacy of the terminal serifs.
Designer Steven Skaggs designed Piston as a typeface to be tinkered with: Convert it to outlines, pull on the vertical and horizontal strokes, pack it tight, and a headline becomes a logotype. Built in OpenType features allow the letterforms to automatically change by substituting a myriad of custom ligatures.
Features
Additional features include: Kerning, Fractions, Standard Ligatures, Ordinals, Ornaments, Contextual Alternates, Terminal Forms, Initial Forms, Stylistic Sets, and Contextual Ligatures.
Glyphs
Basic Latin 94
Latin-1 Supplement 95
Latin Extended-A 124
Latin Extended-B 60
IPA Extensions 10
Spacing Modifier Letters 9
Combining Diacritical Marks 24
Greek and Coptic 2
Latin Extended Additional 139
General Punctuation 16
Currency Symbols 1
Letterlike Symbols 2
Mathematical Operators 12
Geometric Shapes 2
Alphabetic Presentation Forms 2
Latin Extended-D 3
Additional Glyphs 257
Piston supports 152 languages. View our language support page to see which.