Great family full of pithy design choices! Can you wrangle an Ultra Bold weight?

I suggest you increase the letter spacing to at least a full grid space. Afterward, reining in the right side bearing on your t will improve default inter-letter spacing.

The titular reference is a bit off. Here’s a good reference for what I believe you are naming.

True. xe Inktrap does not fully qualify as a stencil design, be it by a slight margin: B, 8, O, o, and 0 lack pylons. But it is a mere stone’s throw (or is it a brick toss?) away. :)

While pylon is not yet a widely used term of typographic anatomy, all the stylish gaps you included in your letters look to me just like pylons; the letters largely appear to be stencil forms and could function in this way.

Btw, pylons can cut across counter-forming strokes at any point or angle along that stroke (e.g. Glaser Stencil) and often do for visual flair or for more practical reasons (like reducing the number of cuts needed to make the stencil).

Ink traps rarely cut completely through a stroke. When they do, as in the wikipedia example, they are very minute cuts (i.e. closer to the size of gap in your M), that are meant to fill in and disappear completely due to ink spread in (esp.) cheaply printed output. In most cases, they amount to a characteristic and precise thinning of strokes in the immediate vicinity of junctures. Cute little notches, nooks, and crannies instead of gaps.

Comparing the gaps in M, W – and to a lesser extent Y, a, s, etc. – to the rest of the pylon-sized inktraps, I wonder if you should make a custom composite brick to bring the interrupted strokes that much closer to the stem they approach and to the definition of “inktrap”. Categorically, I believe, this will make your design more consistent and appealing.

I still want an ultrabold version! ;)

Now how in the world did I miss these two sets? Both of em just beautiful. 10/10 for both!

Now how in the world did I miss these two sets? Both of em just beautiful. 10/10 for both!

Sorry. The computer seems to be into double posting today..