The Terrane family
01 · underlineA contemporary serif, drawn for the long read.
Terrane holds its nerve from footnote to hoarding. Low stroke contrast and open apertures keep text legible at speed, while a tall x-height stays calm at small sizes. It reads as quietly modern without abandoning the warmth of the pen.
Quartz sphinx flung a dozen big jackdaws — a working proof, set in Terrane Regular at reading size.
Engineered to a thousand-unit em.
Every proportion is tuned so the family locks together across weights and optical sizes. The vertical metrics below are drawn true to the fonts we ship.
- Styles
- 18
- Weights
- Thin → Black
- Italics
- Drawn, not slanted
- Glyphs / style
- 892
- Units per em
- 1000
- x-height
- 528
- Cap height
- 712
- Numerals
- Lining · oldstyle
Licensed plainly, priced per surface.
Pick the surface Terrane will live on. Each licence is perpetual for the tier it covers — no audits, no seat-counting theatre.
- Static artwork, print and packaging
- Install on up to five studio machines
- Full family bundle from $290
- Self-hosted WOFF2, no tracker calls
- Subsetting and variable file included
- View tiers scale in clean increments
- Embed in a single app binary
- iOS, Android and desktop builds
- Unlimited installs of that release
A small foundry in a converted grain store.
Terrane works from the edge of the Peak District, where the light changes fast and nothing gets rushed. We draw slowly, test relentlessly, and license plainly. Every family ships with a printed specimen and a free trial cut, because letters should be judged in the wild — on real paper, in real screens, at real sizes.
Optical sizes
02 · segmentedAt text sizes the drawing opens up: spacing loosens, ink traps deepen, and the serifs thicken just enough to survive a cheap printer and a tired reader.
Tightened for headlines.
Terrane
Focus a tab, then use ← → to move, Home / End to jump. Each cut is a real optical size — the indicator re-measures itself to whatever it lands on.