I first started Lawless font over a year ago, but never finished it owing to the fact that I accidentally deleted the file. Yea that happened and it was painful, a bit like losing a £20 note from your back pocket (I've done that too). So I started it again but took it in a slightly different direction. Originally it was very clean and angular. This version was hand-drawn and then traced into Adobe Illustrator.
Lawless Font Inspiration
I first had the idea for Lawless when I was working on social images for the movie Slow West. It's a western movie with Michael Fassbender, not sure if you'll remember it. Worth seeing, lovely cinematography. Anyway, it struck me that the typeface on the artwork was not what I would have expected. It was using a modern serif typeface. I thought nice choice, you didn't go for the typical western-style typeface—bold move.
Fast Forward a Few Years
That must have stuck in my head as I really love the old woodtype from the 1800s period. So I quite literally threw my hat in the ring and designed Lawless.
Lawless Font Includes
Lawless comes in 4 styles and includes standard punctuation and symbols with additional language support for eastern, central, and western European countries. The four styles are:
- Lawless Regular
- Lawless Grunge
- Lawless Spur
- Lawless Shadow
Buy Lawless
You can buy Lawless on my shop the font format is .otf. It includes a full commercial license, with just over 370 glyphs and 4 styles.
Hope you like it, that is all.
Written by Simon Stratford, type designer and graphic designer. These are my opinions, reached after too little sleep and too much coffee. You can also follow my antics on @itsmesimonok, or leave a comment below. Despite all the opinions, I’m actually quite nice.