The kick
Weight moves air. Lay it on the one and the whole line breathes with the bar.
Letterforms in strict time.
Cadence is an independent foundry with one belief: a letterform is a note. Our flagship family Pocket carries four variable axes, tuned like a drum kit. Write a groove on the grid and the specimen plays it back, sixteen steps to the bar.
Each row is one axis of Pocket. Each column is a sixteenth. Steps snap on the beat, in strict time. Sound stays off until you switch it on.
The pocket is a place.
Amateurs chase the click. Players sit a breath behind it, and the room leans in.
Most type is drawn for silence. It stands still on the page and waits to be judged like furniture. We think a letterform is closer to a note: it has an attack, a body, and a decay, and it means nothing until it lands somewhere in time.
So we stopped drawing shapes and started writing parts. Weight is the kick, it moves air. Casual is the snare, it sets the attitude. Slant is the hat, it pushes the phrase. Mono is the block, it holds the count.
Pocket carries all four parts in one file. You do not install this family so much as you sit down at it.
Four axes, tuned like a kit.
Every panel below is the same typeface. When the transport runs, each part plays its own row of the grid.
The snare
Linear reads the chart. Casual is the same player after midnight: same notes, different attitude.
The hat
Fifteen degrees of forward lean. It never carries the song. It makes the song hurry, politely.
The block
Every glyph on the same width. When the arrangement gets loose, the block keeps the count.
Sixty to one eighty, no rush, no drag. This ampersand has kept perfect time since the day we cut it. Press play up top and watch it work.
Eight weights, one count.
Every weight of Pocket is cut on the same rhythm section. Read down the list for the crescendo.
- Count it in.
- Sit a breath behind.
- Lean on the one.
- Ghost the offbeats.
- Accent every and.
- Drive the chorus.
- Bury the click.
- Close the show.
Every hit in the kit.
Six hundred forty glyphs per style. The greatest hits are below. Click one, put it on the stand, and pose it by hand, or let it follow the groove.
License the groove.
Four licenses, flat prices, plain language. The trial is the full instrument, not a demo kit. Count it in before you commit.
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Rehearsal
The full family for thirty days. Student and personal work. No watermark, no nag screens, no expiring cut.
$0
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Session
Desktop licenses for up to five machines. Print, packaging, logos, mockups. Perpetual, like a good habit.
$96 per style
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Tour
Self hosted web fonts for one domain and a million monthly views. WOFF2, subset, cached at the edge.
$240 per year
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Residency
Apps, embedded devices, broadcast, and anything with a hardware budget. Scoped with you on one call.
$1,800 and up
Every license is perpetual except Tour, which renews like a good weekly gig. Upgrades credit what you already paid. If you outgrow a tier mid project, finish the gig, then settle up.