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Namche | Type system 01
FUTURE IS A FORMWE SHAPE TOGETHER.
Namche Shadow gives one type system three ways to speak: a human headline in Sans, a mechanical signal in Mono, and Namche Shape, a field of pixels that melt, stack, and trace. The forms change, while the underlying measure stays steady.
Type testerK002
Give the thought some room.
Family
Style
A form becomes a voice.
Select the line and write your own.
SansK003
Round inside.
Clear outside.
ROUND INNER CORNERSCRISP OUTER FORM
The softened inner corners are the only deliberate departure from Geist. The outer contour remains crisp, keeping large words exact while their counters carry a quieter character. Namche Shadow Sans sets the headlines and the running text alike, always in Medium 500.
Thin
A shared form holds many voices.100ExtraLight
A shared form holds many voices.200Light
A shared form holds many voices.300Regular
A shared form holds many voices.400Medium
A shared form holds many voices.500SemiBold
A shared form holds many voices.600Bold
A shared form holds many voices.700ExtraBold
A shared form holds many voices.800Black
A shared form holds many voices.900Italic | Medium 500
The same voice, leaning forward.
MonoK004
The mechanical voice.
Namche Shadow Mono is used in uppercase only: for navigation, reference codes, coordinates, and the small pieces of language that orient a system.
DESIGNBRANDFONTMETABALLUIGITHUB
K004ReferenceV0.6.1Release09:41 UTCTimeEU-WESTRegion
47.4062° N | 9.7457° E - DORNBIRN, CAMPUSVÄRE
ShapeK005
Three shapes, one grid.
Namche Shape, designed by Michael Marte for Ruhm etc., redraws the Geist Pixel grid three ways. Every glyph ships in four seeded variants, and contextual alternates rotate them, so a repeated letter never looks the same twice.
Mississippi melts
Every pixel is a circle; some neighbours melt together through necks. Pixels melt, not every connection.
InspectorK006
Every glyph, on its lines.
- Styles
- Glyphs
- Style sets
- Scripts
Get the fontsK007
Use the same source.
Release v0.6.1 | ZIP
Package entry points
CSS entry points and local wrappers for Next.js projects.
npm i @namche/namche-shadownext/font wrappers
Import the families you use in app/layout. Namche Shape exposes one export per style.
import { NamcheShadowSans } from '@namche/namche-shadow/font/sans';
import { NamcheShadowMono } from '@namche/namche-shadow/font/mono';
import { NamcheShapeMetaball, NamcheShapeOrigin, NamcheShapeSkeleton } from '@namche/namche-shadow/font/shape';Pinned stylesheet
One line for all three families. Keep the version in the URL.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.namche.ai/fonts/namche-shadow/v0.6.1/fonts.css">Namche Shadow and Namche Shape are free to use, study, modify, and redistribute under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. No reserved font name is declared.
CreditsK008
Drawn from a clear lineage.
Namche Shadow Sans and Namche Shape were designed by Michael Marte for Ruhm etc. Rounded inner corners give Namche its headline voice; Shape turns the pixel grid into metaballs, the original Namche shapes, and a connected trace.
All three families are derived from Vercel Geist. Namche Shadow Mono keeps the Geist Mono outlines and Namche Shape starts from the Geist Pixel grid.
The suite is owned by BTLG Holding GmbH and released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.