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ROM

ROM

  • Light & Italic
  • Book & Italic
  • Regular & Italic
  • Medium & Italic
  • Bold & Italic
  • Heavy & Italic
  • Black & Italic

About ROM

About this typeface

Info

Designed by our longstanding collaborator and dear friend Seb McLauchlan, ROM is a sturdy, confident fusion of classic Grotesk and Gothic typeface styles. It combines the rationalized lines of the former with raw details from the latter, resulting in moments both beautiful and dissonant. Taking inspiration from typeface applications in conceptual art catalogs from the ’60s and ’70s, ROM’s proportions are wide and generous in caps, and narrow and elegant in lowercase.

In true Dinamo style, Seb is a graphic designer first who makes fonts second. In search of a mature typeface in the spirit of Franklin Gothic, Bell Gothic, or Akzidenz-Grotesk for his own publishing projects — one with a complete weight range that he could use sparingly — Seb took to a blank page and started constructing ROM. ROM features six subfamilies that flow gracefully from Compressed to Extended. Notice what happens to the O’s counter as it grows — shifting from diamond to rectangle to circle. It’s in these details that you can see ROM’s various influences and how they’ve been brought together under one variable roof.

Credits

Design: Seb McLauchlan
Spacing and Kerning: Igino Marini
Production: Dinamo

Supported Languages

Latin: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Swahili (individual language), Italian, German, Javanese, Malay (individual language), French, Turkish, Polish, Filipino, Indonesian, Standard Malay, Sundanese, Northern Uzbek, West Central Oromo, Romanian, Amahuaca, Malagasy, Dutch, Tagalog, Cebuano, Somali, Northern Kurdish, Haitian, Hungarian, Nyanja, Zulu, Shona, Czech, Swedish, Quechua, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Hiligaynon, Iloko, Rundi, Kalenjin, Ganda, Xhosa, Central Kurdish, Afrikaans, Turkmen, Low German, Luba-Lulua, Kongo, Danish, Neapolitan, Southern Sotho, Croatian, Minangkabau, Wolof, Kituba (Democratic Republic of Congo), Finnish, Slovak, Swiss German, Pedi, Sicilian, Eastern Oromo, Norwegian, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Bemba (Zambia), Catalan, Buginese, Kamba (Kenya), Venetian, Lombard, Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo, Banjar, Soga, Achinese, Gheg Albanian, Nyankole, Balinese, Jamaican Creole English, Yao, Lithuanian, Bosnian, Waray (Philippines), Slovenian, K'iche', Gusii, Southern Qiandong Miao, Northern Qiandong Miao, Kimbundu, Soninke, Meru, Afar, Pampanga, Hani, Tosk Albanian, Standard Latvian, Central Aymara, Southern Aymara, Batak Toba, Sena, Chiga, North Ndebele, Galician, Tumbuka, Scots, Acholi, Makonde, Anaang, Sardinian, Mandinka, Guadeloupean Creole French, Batak Dairi, Batak Simalungun, Ngazidja Comorian, Standard Estonian, Batak Mandailing, South Ndebele, Morisyen, Khasi, Upper Guinea Crioulo, Chokwe, Gourmanchéma, Kabuverdianu, Ndonga, Occitan (post 1500), Uab Meto, Kekchí, Yucateco, Basque, Bari, Piemontese, Welsh, Picard, Chavacano, Bena (Tanzania), Nobiin, Konzo, Friulian, Walloon, Crimean Tatar, Maltese, Samoan, Silesian, Batak Karo, Western Frisian, Sango, Tzeltal, Jola-Fonyi, Tzotzil, Ladino, Tetum, Luxembourgish, Tetun Dili, Papiamento, Tedim Chin, Fijian, Icelandic, Wayuu, Mandjak, Mapudungun, Macedo-Romanian, Kölsch, Kaonde, Montenegrin, Breton, Latgalian, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Amis, Huastec, Maore Comorian, Mískito, Irish, Gagauz, Sranan Tongo, Corsican, Tok Pisin, Gilbertese, Kashubian, Arbëreshë Albanian, Mwani, Saramaccan, Võro, Bikol, Sangu (Tanzania), Mankanya, Seselwa Creole French, Faroese, Andaandi, Tahitian, Orma, Chamorro, Kalaallisut, Scottish Gaelic, Chuukese, Maori, Mattokki, Romansh, Ladin, Central Nahuatl, Karelian, Asháninka, Naga Pidgin, Pohnpeian, Shipibo-Conibo, Alekano, Northern Sami, Pijin, Walser, Rarotongan, Acheron, Palauan, Mirandese, Upper Sorbian, Dehu, Aragonese, Chachi, Bislama, Pichis Ashéninka, Ashéninka Perené, Yanesha', Ixcatlán Mazatec, Kven Finnish, Niuean, Lower Sorbian, Hopi, Nomatsiguenga, Eastern Arrernte, Creek, Rotokas, Mohawk, Tokelau, Algonquin, Cofán, Warlpiri, Matsés, Murrinh-Patha, Chiltepec Chinantec, Veps, Amarakaeri, Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association), Oroqen, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Candoshi-Shapra, Esperanto, Kala Lagaw Ya, Seri, Lule Sami, Southern Sami, Caquinte, Inari Sami, Cimbrian, Istro Romanian, Anuta, Meriam Mir, Shawnee, Ido, Aleut, Pintupi-Luritja, Gooniyandi, Ume Sami, Wiradjuri, Volapük, Western Abnaki, Záparo, Munsee, Lojban, Interlingue, Latin, Potawatomi, Eastern Abnaki, Manx, Novial, Klingon, Interglossa, Cornish and Minang

Character Overview

ROM In Use

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