A neo-grotesque in six movements.
Drawn for mass, counters and the space between.
Monolith is a typeface with no interest in being polite. A single weight occupies the page like a poured slab; the counters are cut clean so the white space can do the talking.
Select any character to set it in the display line above. It will not ask twice.
Plate 04 · The letter R, dissected at 320pt. Hover the plate to inspect the joints.
A grotesque is not a neutral object. Every curve here is loaded: the bowl presses against the stem, the leg kicks out just enough to hold the baseline, and the counter stays open so the form can breathe at 16vw.
Set narrow, it behaves like a headline in a newspaper printed in a hurry. Set wide, it becomes a building.
All metrics supplied in the specimen file. No font binaries are loaded; this plate is set in the system grotesque.