Hipsterpotamus
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This typeface has me bamboozled to frazzle in attempts to describe it. In trying to fill as much of the available linear space with ink (or pixels [light]), it has become ballooned with squodge (but to avoid the kind of squodge that is evident in Gagarin, it has been given a few sharp corners). In doing so, it must abandon interior space; so – no counters. Some of the shapes incorporate the superellipse, a beautiful shape with a good story attached to it, which I really do recommend you read. I could see it being very satisfyingly cut from metal, but also made into squishy biscuits. I like that the vees – and possibly the M – look like an opened book; that the lowercase k looks like a churlish crow (or PacMan™ emerging from the bathroom); that the lowercase f looks like that famous criminal penguin with a pompadour in a wind-tunnel; and the asterisk, a lotus blossom. [shapesforcash.com]