Recto · registering plates
Recto Type Foundry · release 001

A chromatic variable typeface that ships in four plates. It prints out of register, drifts under your eye, then snaps into line. Built for posters, packaging, and screens that still want ink.

plates Four, C M Y K
weight 200 to 800
format Variable OTF
use Desktop + Web
offset x 0.0 mm offset y 0.0 mm screen 175 lpi status in register
Scroll to register
01 Optical sizing

One drawing will not serve a caption and a billboard. Overprint carries an optical axis, so the contrast opens as the letters grow. Scroll to push it from text to display.

Counter
opsz 12 size 22 px
Four plates load from four edges
cyan 0%
magenta 0%
yellow 0%
key 0%
In register
02 The separation

One word.
Four passes.

Every glyph is drawn as four overlapping plates. Stack them in register and you read one clean impression. Pull them apart and the letter splits into light, the way a press drifts on a Monday morning. Drag the control to take it apart yourself.

type type type type
registered separated
Cyan screen 15° · pass 1
78%
Magenta screen 75° · pass 2
64%
Yellow screen 0° · pass 3
52%
Key screen 45° · pass 4
91%
Rosette Four angled screens interlock into a rosette so the eye reads color, not dots. Overprint keeps that logic on screen, with the offsets exposed.
03 Inside the file

Features, switched live

Recto Studio 1928, sizes 1/2 and 3/4.

active: none

Set it. Spread it. Lock it.

spread 16 · ink 92 · wght 740
04 Character set

Tap any glyph to split it

Abstract color flow
DIMENSION
06 Dynamic angles
R
E
C
T
O
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A face that admits the printing happened.
Studio note, Recto type specimen 001
The argument

Most type treats color as a finish you add later. Overprint treats color as structure. Every letter is four plates, so a headline can break apart, drift, and find its register in front of the reader. Ink is not decoration. It is the letter.

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