mastery takes time.
repetition is the lesson.
A Pulp special project
mastery takes time. your first font takes five minutes.
typodojo is a dojo for the shape of language: draw the letters your words are set in, again and again, until you're proud of them.
Free to make and download. No account needed.
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Draw it once.
One letter, on the lines every letter hangs from, with a finger, a stylus or a mouse.
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Ink turns to outline.
Your strokes become clean, closed outlines, the shapes a font is actually made of. The pen's path stays inside.
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Give it room.
Every letter gets space on each side, its side bearings, so a word reads as one even line instead of a crowd.
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Grow a family.
Light, regular and bold all come from the same drawing. Redraw any letter for a style when you want it just so.
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Take it home.
Download OTF, TTF, WOFF2 and WOFF. Install it, set it in Figma, put it on your website.
A wobbly line drawn every day becomes a straight one.
Made in typodojo
One pen. Fifty-four characters.
Typo Display is the typeface on this page. It was drawn with one round pen in the same studio you're about to use, and the studio turned the strokes into a real font. Its sisters, Typo Nib and Typo Textura, were drawn with a broad nib. Switch to the pen path to see the strokes under the ink.
abcdefghijklm
nopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789?!
- the dojo · sketch
Five minutes. Twenty-six letters.
Draw A to Z once and Typo handles the rest. You leave with a real font, and the itch to make a better one.
- the dojo · draft
Half an hour. A whole alphabet.
Capitals, lowercase, numbers and punctuation, a style to start from, one spacing check, and a bold grown from your regular.
- the dojo · studio
An afternoon. Fourteen lessons.
Accents, Unicode, spacing, kerning, ligatures and a full family with italics. This is where a font gets good.
- the dojo · foundry
Days. A real type project.
Saved versions, proof sheets at every size, Central and Eastern European letters, UFO and hinting. Patience required, and rewarded.
- the dojo · zen
Five minutes. No pausing.
Letters and words, one after another, with no font to finish. Leave the page and it ends. Five unbroken minutes count as a day of practice.
Five minutes is enough to begin. Begin.
Today's edition
One claim a post, with its source.
A short daily feed about type: a fact or a quote, where it came from, and something to make. Draw the shape to react. Gone at midnight, kept in the archive.
Ranks
Belts are earned, in any mode.
Modes are the time you have. Ranks are what you have finished. Your first font of any kind earns a white belt; a complete alphabet, a family and a published font earn the rest, with time at the pen between each.
New: animation
Words that move people. Sometimes words that move.
On the web, motion is part of typography now.
Marketplace
Share it, sell it.
Publish what you make and sell licenses to it under clear, standard terms. Buyers know exactly what they can do, and every license can be checked with a link.
Everything you need to finish a font is free.
Committed members add cloud storage, larger families, pro formats and a lower fee when you sell. Ranks are earned the same way by everyone.
Member
$0
- OTF, TTF, WOFF2 and WOFF
- Up to 4 styles per family
- Daily practice and every rank
- 20% fee on sales
Committed member
$8 a month
- Adds variable fonts and UFO
- Unlimited styles and cloud projects
- Every past daily set
- 12% fee on sales
Meet Typo
This is Typo. He keeps the dojo.
Typo is a shiba, painted in a few strokes of ink, and the sensei of typodojo. He believes anyone can learn type and nobody masters it in an afternoon. He teaches the principles, sits with you through your first wobbly alphabet, and even helps you sell your font when you're ready.
Every master was once a beginner who kept showing up. Draw one letter today.
- on practice
The pen does not hurry. Neither should you.
- on craft
Close is not the same as done.
- on spacing
Your n is wider than your h. Bring them into agreement.
- on finishing
Good. Now do it without looking so pleased.
Begin
Draw a typeface.
Draw by hand with a finger, a stylus, or a mouse. Pen and brush tools are optional. Either way, you leave with a real font that works in every app.