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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Madcap

Madcap (2024) has its roots in a style of lettering that its designer, Mark Simonson, used frequently when he was in high school in the early seventies. He was inspired by comic book and greeting card lettering from the sixties. Madcap’s lively appearance comes from its skewed geometry, which avoids anything aligning to a square axis or grid, yet does so with a rhythmic and consistent logic. It’s an all-caps design, and features an alternate lowercase-style “E” and a full set of dingbats.

Designed by

  • Mark Simonson

Language Support

  • Catalan
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Fula
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Malay
  • Maltese
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

OpenType Features

  • Common Ligatures
  • Fractions
  • Ordinal Numerals
  • Stylistic Sets
  • Subscript
  • Superscript


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A

Uppercase Letter Latin

Uppercase Letter Greek

Lowercase Letter Latin

Lowercase Letter

Lowercase Letter Greek

Modifier Letter

Other Letter Latin

Nonspacing Mark Inherited

Decimal Number

Other Number

Connector Punctuation

Dash Punctuation

Close Punctuation

Final Punctuation

Initial Punctuation

Other Punctuation

Open Punctuation

Currency Symbol

Modifier Symbol

Math Symbol

Other Symbol

Ligatures

Stylistic Set 1

Fractions

Ordinals

Scientific Inferiors

Superscript

Subscript

Numerators

Denominators

Glyph Composition