Foundry List
Provided Formats
Macintosh
OpenType PS (.otf) &
legacy PostScript Type 1
Windows
OpenType PS (.otf) &
legacy TrueType
Download Mavis specimen (PDF)
About Mavis
Thirteen years after her birth, Mavis is finally released. Originally designed in 1992 when Chester was still living in Montreal, the font was initially named "Fat Bastard", and was a knowingly dumb caps-only font. (Seven years later another Canadian, Mike Myers, based a character in his film "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" on the typeface.) p>
In mid-2005 the typeface was reborn, rechristened "Mavis", and completely revised. A lowercase was added, along with alternate versions of several letters and numerals, and a bunch of currency symbols. p>
Thanks to OpenType programming, Mavis dances a subtle alternating glyph jig: every other letter is an alternate form. (This feature is programmed as "Contextual Alternates", and is turned on by default.) This is Mavis Regular with Contextual Alternates turned off: p>
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Mavis Regular OTF features a "Titling Alternates" set of grotesque variants. This is Mavis Regular with Titling Alternates turned on: p>
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Mavis Counterpunch is identical to Mavis Regular but with all counters knocked out. This is Mavis Counterpunch with Titling Alternates turned off: p>
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This is Mavis Counterpunch with Titling Alternates turned on: p>
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Supported languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arumanian, Asturian, Basque, Breton, romanised Bulgarian, romanised Burmese, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Old English, Middle English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, traditional German, transliterated Greek, Greenlandic, Hawai'ian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, romanised Japanese, Kashubian, romanised Kazakh, romanised Korean, Kurdish, romanised Kyrgyz, romanised Laotian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Livonian, romanised Macedonian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Moldavian, romanised Mongolian, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, romanised Russian, Inari Saami, North Saami, Lule Saami, Skolt Saami, South Saami, Samoan, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Traditional Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, romanised Tajik, romanised Tatar, Tswana, Tongan, Turkish, romanised Turkmen, romanised Ukrainian, Uzbek, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Yapese, and many transliterated South Asian languages. p>
Glyphset contents
// Contextual Alternates = subtle glyph substitution
// Titling Alternates = grotesque variants of C G J S a b c d e g p q s 2 3 5 and other glyphs
// Ligatures: fb, ffb, ff, fh, ffh, fi, ffi, fj, ffj, fk, ffk, fl, ffl, ft, fft, ftt, tt
// Monetary symbols for Euro, Dollar, Cent, Pound, Guilder, Yen, Colon, Cruzeiro, Franc, Lira, Naira, Peseta, Rupee, Won, New Sheqel, Tugrik, Peso, Baht
// Ordinal a, c, and o in Regular and Grotesk versions
// Arrows at 45 degree increments
// A full complement of spaces and dashes
// Useful geometric shapes
// Mirrored double quotation marks
// The interrobang
// &c.



