The TINY font family was originally created over the summer of 2018 as the visual identity for an experimental retail pop-up shop in Chinatown, New York City called “Today in New York”, or TINY for short. The shop was the result of an intern project at Verdes, a creative agency, between Jack Halten Fahnestock and Théïa Flynn, where they sold T-shirts and tote bags customized on the spot. TINY is based on the smallest type size (using only 5 of the 16 available print heads) of the HandJet EBS-250, the tool used in the shop for immediate printing on textiles. Its variable dot size comes from the HandJet’s adjustable ink output.

TINY 5x3 comes as a variable font with a size axis to modify dot size from 0—300, as well as 15 separate instances (each increasing the dot size by 20 units). Future releases will include more widths (up to at least 5x13) and variable axes.

Character Set

1300+ glyphs

Included: only Latin-based languages for now but a lot of ’em; various styles (see section below); extensive punctuation including case-sensitive forms; superscript numbers, (unicase) letters, and some punctuation; small caps (unicase); math characters including fractions; proportional, oldstyle, and tabular figures; roman numerals; arrows for days; miscellaneous symbols

Stylistic Sets

Stylistic Set 01: (Mono/duo)spaced forms (kerning must also be disabled)

Stylistic Set 02: (A/de)scenders

Stylistic Set 03: Wider capitals

Stylistic Set 04: Boxy forms

Stylistic Set 05: Open counters

Stylistic Set 06: Shorter diacritic characters (experimental!)

The stylistic sets can be chained together so, for example, a wider, boxy C with open counters is available.

Grid-Perfect Leading

Divide Adobe's auto leading in half for one dot size between lines or refer to the leading formula below for more specific adjustment.

Leading Formula:

x = font size

y = desired number of dot spaces between lines

leading = x ÷ 10 × (y + 5)

See leading table

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