ATELIERBRUT

Experimental type foundry — Marseille — poured since 2019

We pour letters like concrete: hot, heavy, and left rough where the formwork touched them. Four variable faces. Every axis, fully open.

Move the cursor — the letters take the weight

01

Doctrine

Type is a structural material.

We leave the formwork marks in.

No revivals. No apologies. No beige.

Atelier Brut draws typefaces the way Brutalists poured buildings: structure first, ornament never, the surface honest to the tool that made it. Every face ships with its entire variable range — if an axis exists, you get all of it. If a glyph came out wonky, we kept it and named the axis after it.

02

Specimens — drag your cursor across a line to work the axis

A. Béton Brut

902 glyphs · wght 100–900 · SOFT 0–100

Load-bearing serifs.

A slab poured, not drawn. At SOFT 0 the corners are shuttering-sharp; at 100 the mix has slumped. Both are true.

B. Formwork

644 glyphs · wght 100–900 · WONK 0–1

The mistakes stay in.

Our text face, cast against warped plywood. The WONK axis tilts stems the way a hand-set line drifts. Set it to 1 and mean it.

C. Rebar

712 glyphs · wdth 62 fixed · wght 100–900

Tension under load

Condensed steel for headlines that carry weight they were never rated for. Caps only. It never asked for lowercase.

D. Aggregate

838 glyphs · wdth 62–125 · wght 100–900

coarse mix, wide set

A wide-body workhorse with gravel in the counters. Sets long captions like ballast: low, even, impossible to tip over.

03 — Stress test · live

HARDER

Velocity px/s
0000
wght
0200
wdth
062.0
Peak
0000

Scroll fast. The headline is load-tested at your scroll velocity, sampled every frame. Weight and width climb with speed; the peak is recorded until you leave.

04

Licences — one price, no tiers named after metals

One style

€90

Desktop, web, app, broadcast. One flat licence, forever. No per-pageview meter, no renewal email every March.

One family

€340

Every style, every axis, all the interpolation space in between. The variable file is the licence.

Everything, forever

€900

All four faces plus everything we pour next. You buy it, you own it. We don't call it a partnership.

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