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Beardstown

Swell Type · John Roshell · 2021

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displayIndustrial display
Beardstown specimen from Swell Type

A three-weight display family with an industrial midwestern character, offering automatic alternates and coverage for 223 languages including Cyrillic and Vietnamese.

About

Beardstown comes in Regular, Bold and Outline cuts, each sharing automatic alternate glyphs that activate contextually. The design draws on a hardworking, no-nonsense aesthetic rooted in the American industrial midwest. Language support spans Western and Central European Latin, Vietnamese and Cyrillic scripts.

Classification

A sturdy, upright display family with an industrial midwestern character, available in Regular, Bold and Outline cuts. The no-nonsense aesthetic and limited three-weight family structure place it firmly in the display category rather than a general-purpose text face.

Weights

RegularBoldOutline

Languages

LatinCyrillicVietnamese

Tags

displayindustrialmidwestamericanaoutlineworkhorseheritagebold

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