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Basic Hope + Lemon Milk Pro FTR
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3-style layerable collegiate slab serif family (Solid, Outline & Shadow)
Basic Hope
Basic Hope is a clean 3-style collegiate slab serif family letting you stack solid fills, crisp outlines, and 3D drop shadows in any color palette!
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Sturdy stroke walls and open counters weed cleanly on adhesive vinyl, HTV apparel film, and cut cardstock.
Plotter & output verdictEasy-Weed Vinyl & Print Ready
Recommended minimum scale0.75 in+ cap height
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaHTV Apparel · Team Jerseys · Heavyweight Merch
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Basic Hope.
Basic Hope is a collegiate slab family shipped in three layers: a solid varsity weight, an outline cut and a shadow cut, all on the same skeleton so they stack into one layered word. The layers share metrics, which means any tracking change breaks the registration between them, and the outline is the layer that closes at small sizes. It needs roughly 28 mm for the outline and the shadow offset to read, and it is best in two inks on white or cream, or one ink plus a knocked-out outline on coloured card.
3-style-family · Layerable · Playful-preppy
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Basic Hope with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Basic Hope + Bunglon
Adds a warm human signature touch for 1-to-3-word callouts without competing against structured serif capitals.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Basic Hope’s stroke geometry.
Varsity banner, team sign and yearbook cover
A layered collegiate slab is the lettering a school team already wears on its kit, so a banner built from the three cuts looks like the team's own signage. The shadow gives the name depth at 80 mm, and two inks print the banner and the team sign from one file.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Banner 1800 x 600 mm, word 180 mm with 15 mm outline clearance, 40 mm safe edge. Team sign 600 x 400 mm, word 90 mm, 20 mm margins. Yearbook cover 170 x 240 mm, title 44 pt, 15 mm margins.
Pre-production check
Stacking the shadow behind the solid at 90 mm leaves a 2 mm sliver between the layers that reads as a misprint at three metres. Increase the offset to 4 mm or print a single flat colour, and read one sign from the field before the run.
Party invite, cake topper and balloon banner
A layered slab lets a birthday invite carry a headline with depth without an illustration, which is what a teenager's party wants. The outline cut gives the word a sticker edge at 36 mm, and two inks print the invite and the banner as one set.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Invite A6, word 36 mm with 8 mm outline clearance, details 8/11 pt, 12 mm margins. Topper 130 x 110 mm, word 44 mm with a 6 mm stick slot and 12 mm clear. Banner 1500 x 400 mm, word 150 mm, 30 mm safe edge.
Pre-production check
A 130 mm laser-cut topper cut from the outline cut drops the thin rule under 1 mm and it falls out in the machine. Cut toppers from the solid cut and keep the layers for print, then test one before the set.
Homecoming poster, ticket and alumni card
A three-layer varsity slab reads as a printed homecoming bill rather than a digital flyer, which is what a school autumn tradition wants. The shadow holds at 120 mm on a poster, and two inks print the poster, the tickets and the alumni card in one order.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Poster A2, word 120 mm with 12 mm outline clearance, details 34 mm, 20 mm margins. Ticket 100 x 50 mm, word 12 mm, 4 mm perforation. Alumni card 85 x 55 mm, word 14 mm, 5 mm margins.
Pre-production check
A 100 x 50 mm ticket at 12 mm merges the outline into the solid and the word prints as a grubby block. Keep tickets at 18 mm or print the solid cut only, and check one ticket before the batch.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · 3-style layerable collegiate slab serif family (Solid, Outline & Shadow)
- Foundry / creator
- Darman (7NTypes)
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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