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PSY/OPS Type Foundry · Wesley Poole
A three-variant mid-century display script family designed by Wesley Poole, combining Futurist angularity in Premier with Space Age ornament in Grand Script and Ornamental.
About
Drawing on inked masters by Wesley Poole, the family was refined by Jana Flynn and RXC at PSY/OPS over a year of production work, with particular attention to script-linking mechanics in the cursive variants. Premier references Italian Futurism through super-angular letterforms, while Grand Script and Ornamental evoke Sputnik-era decoration and Calder-influenced motifs. Each font includes Western and Eastern European character sets, stylistic alternates and ligatures.
Classification
A mid-century modern script family with angular and ornamental variants. The Premier sub-family draws on Italian Futurism while the Grand Script and Ornamental subfamilies reference Space Age and atomic-era aesthetics, placing it firmly in the display script category.