Brinewake
A living, ink-cut serif.
Soft curves. Sudden edges.
Designed with Co and Letta Code
Regular · 2026 · First edition
Soft water.
Sharp stone.
Set a line.
Type somethingBasic Latin and selected punctuation. Other characters use your system font.
The white does the carving.
Inside the letterAn open upper arch meets a small, deep bowl. The right foot turns back toward the letter.
Weight gathers on the curves. Counters lean against it. Short, concave serifs end in a cut rather than a rounded tip.
Drawn from cubic paths, then compiled into a real font. No third-party outlines.
Notes from the proofs
The first e left a hairline seam where its bar met the shoulder. Extending the bar closed it. The I lost a raised serif that broke cap height. The k and K were redrawn with flush diagonal cuts and quieter joins.
Large proofs exposed the joins; 32 px proofs tested whether the counters stayed open. The downloadable source contains the final drawings.
A change of scale.
Optical proofsSalt & silver
The shore remembers.
A slow return to open water.
Made for titles, covers, and short passages. Start at 32 px; give the cuts room to show. One weight, no italics.
Every character.
The first cutUppercase, lowercase, lining figures, printable ASCII, curly quotes, en and em dashes, ellipsis, and non-breaking space. No accented letters or additional scripts yet.
Make a little
impression.
Free to use, modify and share, including commercially. Rename modified versions. Provided without warranty. License & build instructions.