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Friendly and flexible: New handmade font Sofa Sans

Created by Austrian type designer Georg Herold-Wildfellner, Sofa Sans is a new hand-drawn, all-caps, display-family font. With a friendly and eye-catching character, it could serve as a good choice for creating customised headings in editorial and cover designs.

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Promotional poster for Sofa Sans font by Georg Herold-Wildfellner, showing a person relaxing on a sofa in a forest setting with white text highlighting the typeface's 18 styles and 4 weights

Interestingly, Herold-Wildfellner has created eight different Rs for each style. These include a standard R, a contextual alternates R, an OT-Swashes R, and five OT-Titling "super-swashy" Rs, which are designed to automatically adjust themselves to available white space.

Sofa Sans comes in four weights, from a monolinear Thin to Black and 18 styles, including shadow-, 3D-, inline- and hatched-styles as well as five layer fonts. There are two optical sizes (Standard and Display), several OpenType features, including Swashes- and Titling-Alternates, and an extensive character set. It's currently available with an 80 per cent discount at MyFonts (ends April 14).

Vintage-style text reading "Also Serving Chocolate and Walnut Brownies" in the Sofa Sans typeface, demonstrating the font's friendly hand-drawn display style
Child on a rope swing above a beach with mountains in the background, demonstrating Sofa Sans typeface in promotional text
Promotional graphic for Sofa Sans font showing "18 Styles" text in the typeface across four weights from monolinear to black, with various decorative finishes displayed below
Sofa Sans typeface sample showing the font name in large purple and grey letters with text crediting creator Georg Herold-Wildfellner and noting 18 styles as handmade originals by Facetype 2017
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