• Architects illustration of a house with architectural plans and old school draftsmen lettering on an orange background
  • Display of draftsmen font with letters, numbers, stylistic sets and punctuation on an orange background.
  • Display of multilingual characters and symbols on an orange background with text about 'Draftsmen is Multi-Lingual'.
  • Illustration of Speedball pen tips and a hand holding a pen on an orange background with text about Draftsmen lettering styles.
  • Video demonstrating the contextual alternates functionality of the Draftsmen font on an orange background.
  • Draftsmen font weights on a grid background with different weight text styles.
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PLS Draftsmen

PLS Draftsmen

$39.00 USD
$39.00 USD
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A font inspired by vintage architect handwriting!

DRAFTSMEN is a monoline font inspired by the traditional draftsmen handwriting seen on early 20th century blueprints and shop drawings. Engineers, draftsmen, and architects relied on single-stroke gothic capitals to mark dimensions, and notations. They were drawn quickly, clearly, and with single strokes. The look was shaped by the tools of the trade: round Speedball "B" nibs.

Draftsmen is ideal for labels, blueprint style notation, comic book captions, diagrams, and packaging details. 

Languages Supported:

  • English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch, along with broad Latin-Extended coverage for additional European and African languages.

What's Included:

  • Four stylistic sets
  • Contextual Alternates (`calt`) that shuffle between all four styles to reduce repeats and mimic real handwriting.
  • Uppercase, numerals, punctuation and multi-lingual characters.

Font Format:

  • OTF: Includes CALT + ss01–ss04 for handwriting simulation
  • Variable fonts: Exported per-style (one for each stylistic style) and does not include contextual alternate functionality.  

Use variable files when you want continuous weight fine-tuning within a style, without the CALT shuffling.

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Draftsmen