phospho, founded by Roland Hörmann in 2008, is a graphic design studio located in Vienna, particularly focused on Type Design, Book Design, Branding and Packaging Design. Believing in the equal importance of the collaborative process and the creative outcome, the studio engages with a network of interdisciplinary professionals, enabling us to take on design ventures of almost any kind.

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Gloss Drop — Wild hand-lettered brush typeface
Gloss Drop Font specimen

Gloss Drop is a wild hand-lettered typeface with spontaneous dynamics and lively, almost hyperactive expression. The letters sit everywhere, but definitely not on any baseline. Extreme thick/thin contrasts attract the viewer's attention, often on the edge of legibility. As a completely free spirit, Gloss Drop is used in creative fields such as music, fashion and magazine culture.

In keeping with the rhythm of real handwriting, some but not all letters connect within a word. Positional Open Type features manage the selection of initial and final forms neighboring a gap automatically and select the corresponding medial or isolated forms. With this and a variety of ligatures, it comes pretty close to what you can usually achieve with ink, brush and paper.

Design—Roland Hörmann
Gloss Drop Font specimen
Gloss Drop Font specimen
Gloss Drop Font specimen
Sample of Gloss Drop Font used on an billboard
Gloss Drop Font in use on an H&M shopping bag
Gloss Drop Regular
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Quirky Brush Lettering Font
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Baseline0
Cap height800
x-Height400
Ascender1060
Descender-480
Font styleGlyph nameAUnicode decimal65Unicode hex0041
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