Kake

What is the Kake Font?

Kake’s upper case letters are inspired by a hand-painted sign outside a temple in Ubud, Bali. The rest of the font is made to fit the style.. The hand-made aesthetic is increased by the implementation of contextual alternates, which automatically swap glyphs to alternate forms to avoid the monotony of repeating letters. The amount of variations for each glyph is dependent on letter frequency in English; there are more a’s and e’s than q’s and j’s. Even with only two variations of some glyphs, the programming makes sure that no two matching glyphs are ever next to each other, and for the most part they will rarely be even two letters apart. This all makes for type that looks like it isn’t type. The glyphs bounce and subtly change weight with willful abandon.. Some of the letters on that original sign are somewhat quirky. If you’re not a fan you can engage stylistic alternates or stylistic sets to change the C, G, S, Y, c, s and y glyphs to a less idiosyncratic form. These variations still have variations themselves, so with contextual alternates on, they will look as random as all the rest.. Case sensitive forms and automatic fractions are included, as are 98 ornaments, ranging from the useful to the (let’s just say) esoteric. These can be accessed from the glyph palette. I know you’ve probably never realized you need an anchor, a fuel pump, skull and crossbones and chess symbols in the same font before, but that doesn’t mean you don’t!. Kake is full on display typography. It’s legible for small blocks of copy but don’t go setting essays in it. Unless you really want to… in which case, go for it.

Kake Font Families

When you download Kake, the family will include the following font styles:

• Kake Regular

Preview of the Kake Font

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Who Designed the Kake Font?

Kake was designed by Dave Rowland.

This font has 1 style(s) and was published by Eclectotype Fonts.

Is Kake a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Kake is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Kake. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Kake for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Kake if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Kake to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Kake for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Kake, it was available for as little as $30.00.