F37 Qbik

F37 Qbik puts a new slant on hardcore geometric sans. It’s bold, powerful and uncompromising… although not so much in its rotalic form. Qbik is born from a brutalist design aesthetic, most of its characters are created out of basic geometric forms and with minimal optical adjustments. It feels hard, pure and confident, a font that knows exactly what it stands for and refuses to budge on principle. Apart from a couple of characterful quirks, like the cap Q, which resembles an upside-down yo-yo. Or the lowercase alternate g, that looks like it has tank tracks. This all starts to change in the companion variant version, which instead of the usual italics come as ‘rotalics’. With italics, the letterforms are slanted, with their feet planted firmly on the baseline. Rotalics however, are rotated to the right, so the characters kind of look like they’re ice-skating, or at least off balance and tottering forward. F37 Qbik is available across five weights, in both upright and rotalic, so 10 styles in all. Medium and regular work best for longer text, while light, bold and black are just the job for display and titling. [f37foundry.com]