TTT

Reticent and Ravenous.

TTT Humorist is a sibling to Norma, in development at Time Type Tokyo. Where Norma runs wide and even across twenty weights, TTT Humorist narrows its focus to ten — an axis built from two hand-drawn extremes, Hair and Black, with the eight named stops between them genuinely interpolated rather than invented. Both masters are drawn in full; what's still catching up is the shared glyph set, since a variable font can only ship a character once its lightest and heaviest drawings agree closely enough to interpolate cleanly between them. A little over half the design is there already, and the rest is following weight by weight. Even mid-development, the two extremes already read as a distinct temperament — reserved and almost weightless at Hair, blunt and unwavering at Black — the same letterforms pulled toward opposite instincts. Its default words in the Type Tester borrow the language of wine and terroir, the same register Norma continues at greater length: Appellation, Cuvée, Héritage — words that, like the type itself, describe something inherited and still being shaped.

TTT Humorist est une police sœur de Norma, en cours de développement chez Time Type Tokyo. Les détails sur son orientation, ses graisses et son calendrier de sortie suivront.