Adam Jagosz

Say hello to Aromatron, a warm, friendly stencil typeface derived from the shapes of leaves.

Aromatron is a friendly yet striking display typeface with a balanced and consistent rhythm. Drawing inspiration from the shapes of nature, unique solutions were employed to achieve a rich, dark, creamy texture.

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Aromatron Regular
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Origins

What is a stencil font?

A stencil is a sheet with shapes cut out, used to produce a design by placing it on a surface and applying paint.

A modern-day stencil typeface may be designed for such applications, or just inspired by them. Aromatron actually did originate as a stencil. I was making a T-shirt for a friend and then decided to develop the idea into a typeface.

In use

Stencil all the way!

To state the obvious, thanks to their properties, stencil fonts can be also used to create stencil-like end products. I was exhilarated to find Aromatron in the wild, used to create some of the goodies at cincelaser.com !

Wooden bookmark with text ”Ana, ¡Felices 50!” set in Aromatron
Wooden bookmark with text ”Betelgeza” set in Aromatron
Wooden bookmark with text ”Piqueña” set in Aromatron
Balance

Aromatron is a single-weight typeface that strives for an even, dark texture. To achieve uniform whitespaces and harmonious glyph widths, some strokes had to get indecently thick.

Swashes

Non-recommended usage

It should come as no surprise that Aromatron works best in lowercase and mixed case... but let’s look at some all‑caps usage, just to get that out of the way.

Because of my dense texture, you may be tempted to set me in an airless, soulless, tightly packed, loud all-caps wall-o-text.

Swashes to the rescue!

Most capitals come with two contextual swash variants that can add visual interest. Tap or hover over the white card to view the alternate set.

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to my luscious caps,
use my lavish swash
alternates to break
up the monotony.

How about some
Alternates?

Aromatron’s alternate glyphs explore unicase solutions to spark visual interest or provide ways of setting type tighter, denser, darker.

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Features off
Keep movin’
Features off

The capital swash

Most capital letters come with up to five swash alternates.

RANGER JACK FORGOT THAT BIG Yellow Quilts Were Expensive.
RANGER JACK FORGOT THAT BIG Yellow Quilts Were Expensive.
RANGER JACK FORGOT THAT BIG Yellow Quilts Were Expensive.
RANGER JACK FORGOT THAT BIG Yellow Quilts Were Expensive.
RANGER JACK FORGOT THAT BIG Yellow Quilts Were Expensive.
RANGER JACK FORGOT THAT BIG Yellow Quilts Were Expensive.

The rest of the capital tale

Besides the swash variants, there are extra alternates for J, Y, M, NT.

MINTED JOY

Small is beautiful

Not that you would ever need it, but Aromatron has Petite Caps, Small Caps, and a third set of glyphs nicknamed Medium Caps. Petite cap glyphs sit well with the lowercase and can be also employed via stylistic sets for a unicase effect or compact typesetting.

High or Low ‧ Tall is Large
High or Low ‧ Tall is Large
High or Low ‧ Tall is Large
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Figures aplenty

Aromatron features lining and old-style proportional figures, as well as subscript, superscript and ordinal forms that cover not only numerals, but also currency, lowercase, and some math and punctuation. The ordinals feature does double duty as a lower-aligned superscript.

€12 $34 ¥56 £78 ₿90
€12 $34 ¥56 £78 ₿90
12 34/56 ‧ Platform 7 8/90
No 1o 2a A3 $549 78th Mlle
1(2.4 + a) A3 56.9 78th Defg
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OpenType features

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Type here...
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Shape & color

I felt like also drawing some actual beans and leaves to go with the alphabet, just to see if I didn’t stray too far from the inspiration. Those typographic ornaments and dingbats are accessible as a separate Aromatron Ornaments font as well as in the main font via glyph palette in supported design software.

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fragile
beauty
come
& see
Yas
Queen
{
The
Alive
Game
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A
figure of speech
the music song
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Crafty
Goblins
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The Coffee
Place
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Fun fact: Aromatron supports the International Phonetic Alphabet, including mark attachment.

ɑ
ɒ
ʌ
ɐ
æ
ʙ
ɓ
ɕ
ð
ɗ
ə
ɘ
ɚ
ɛ
ɜ
ɝ
ɞ
ɟ
ɡ
ɠ
ɢ
ʛ
ɣ
ɤ
ʜ
ɥ
ɦ
ɧ
θ
ɪ
ɨ
ʝ
ʟ
ʎ
ɫ
ɬ
ɭ
ɮ
ɯ
ɰ
ɱ
ŋ
ɲ
ɳ
ɴ
ɔ
ɵ
œ
ɶ
ɸ
ɹ
ɺ
ɻ
ɽ
ɾ
ʀ
ʁ
ʂ
ʃ
ʄ
ŧ
ʈ
ʊ
ʍ
χ
ʏ
ʒ
ʐ
ʑ
ʔ
ʕ
ʖ
ʡ
ʢ
ʘ
ǀ
ǃ
ǂ
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