Cast Iron Type

Neomodette

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A geometric sans in dialogue with Futura and the Bauhaus's geometric modernism — built from parametric first principles, not reconstructed from either.

Weight range

Light — Typography in service of a mark
Regular — Typography in service of a mark
Medium — Typography in service of a mark
Bold — Typography in service of a mark

Latin character set

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 &@#%
ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ

Set narrow

Multi-script beta coverage this early is unusual for an indie foundry's first release. Read a paragraph at a working measure, not just a display specimen.

Cast iron takes its shape from the mold, not from a hammer and an eye. Every curve in this typeface came from a parameter, checked against genre and proportion, then finished by hand.

Reading sample

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic," 1910 — long enough to show rhythm across several sentences, not just a single line.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.

Code sample

Neomodette is a display and text sans, not a monospace — there's no fixed-width metric here. This is a look at how the letterforms hold up under real symbol density: brackets, operators, mixed-case identifiers.

class TypeSpecimen def initialize(name, glyph_count: 761) @name = name @glyph_count = glyph_count end def ready? @glyph_count >= 700 && [email protected]? end end

Pangram

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

Punctuation

Standard marks plus three specialty characters most fonts skip: the interrobang, the asterism, and the percontation point — a 17th-century mark for rhetorical questions.

. , ; : ! ? ' " ( ) [ ] — – / \ * &
‽
Interrobang
⁂
Asterism
⸘
Percontation point

Figures

Numerals set at text size, in a sentence, next to the letters they'll actually run alongside.

Cast Iron Type opened in 2024 with a single release: Neomodette 0.5.0, covering 761 glyphs across 4 scripts, priced from $29.

Script coverage

Complete

  • Latin-1
  • Latin-1 Supplement
  • Latin Extended-B (most)

Specialty punctuation included: interrobang, asterism, percontation point.

Beta

  • Cyrillic
  • Armenian
  • Greek (monotonic)

Labeled beta because it is beta — not padded to look complete. Buyers at the current beta price keep their license permanently once these scripts are finished, no re-purchase required.

Cyrillic — beta

АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя

Armenian — beta

ԱԲԳԴԵԶԷԸԹԻԼԽԾԿՀՁՂՃՄՆՈՉՊՋՌՍՎՏՐՑՒՓՔ աբգդեզէըթիլխծկհձղճմնոչպջռսվտրցւփք

Greek — beta

ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω

Licensing

Beta pricing — roughly half the projected 1.0 price

Buy in at the beta price, keep it permanently.

0.5.0 ships complete Latin coverage plus beta Cyrillic, Armenian, and Greek. Price rises when the beta scripts are finished at 1.0. Anyone who buys now keeps their license at no extra cost — no re-purchase required for script completion.

Desktop

$29 / license

$59 at 1.0

Single user, unlimited personal/commercial desktop use — print, PDF, static image export, local app UI mockups.

Not for web embedding or redistribution inside a shipped product.

Webfont

$39 / license

$69 at 1.0

@font-face embedding on one domain plus its subdomains, up to 10,000 monthly pageviews.

Higher-traffic tiers added if requested, not pre-built speculatively.

Most common

Desktop + Web Bundle

$59 / license

$109 at 1.0

Desktop tier and Webfont tier together, one license.

App / Embedded

$79 / license

$129 at 1.0

Embed in a single shipped desktop, mobile, or web application — the font file ships inside the product.

One application title per license.

Studio

$99 / license

$179 at 1.0

Desktop tier, up to 10 seats, single organization.

Full terms: license. Neomodette 0.5.0 is not yet available for purchase — check back shortly, or get in touch to be notified at launch.