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Catsumi + Bareum
Lets Catsumi own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Fine contrast capitals with a sweeping S and a suspended curved M centre
Catsumi
Catsumi is a wide high-contrast titling face in which the thin strokes almost vanish at the joins, leaving the heavy stems and the flat thin serifs to carry the word on their own.
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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 accessStylistic Alternates · Ligatures
Best surfaces & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Catsumi.
CATSUMI spans the full width of the frame in cream on a warm sand ground raked by long shadows from an unseen blind. The letters are wide and low, with hairline cross strokes, unbracketed thin serifs and a very large difference between thick and thin, so the C, the S and the U look like drawn ribbons rather than built letters. Inside the C a script band spells two words in a small hand, and that inset is the only soft element on the card, which makes the contrast of the main word feel deliberate. Three small caps lines at the head and foot name the studio, the style and the designer, and a hairline rule runs above the footer. The face is a titling cut with no lowercase in the preview, and it works on a cover or a bottle because the hairlines disappear at a distance and leave a row of elegant shapes.
Fine contrast capitals with a sweeping S and a suspended curved M centre
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Catsumi with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
Catsumi + The Avenue Editorial
Grounds bold display lettering with classic typographic authority on posters, badges and apparel.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Catsumi’s stroke geometry.
Label for a luxury perfume line
The hairline joins give a bottle a fashion tone without a printed ornament, and the wide capitals fill a short product name across the front of a label.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 60 by 110 mm label: set the product name at 30 pt on one row, keep 10 mm of clear ground beneath before the volume at 5 pt, and hold 8 mm from the outer stem to the label edge.
Pre-production check
Hairlines under a tenth of a millimetre drop out in flexo; print one label on the real foil and check the thin strokes first.
Cover for a fashion issue
One wide word becomes the whole cover image, and the vanishing hairlines let a photograph show through between the heavy stems without the type losing its shape.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 230 by 300 mm cover: set the issue word at 150 pt across the full measure, keep 34 mm of clear ground beneath before the cover lines at 12 pt, and hold 18 mm from the last letter to the right trim.
Pre-production check
Wide letters over a bright photograph need a shadow or a solid panel; print one cover and check the legibility of the hairlines at a metre.
Header for a modern wedding suite
The clean hairline contrast suits a restrained invitation, and the wide caps hold a long pair of names in one line without reducing the size or adding a script.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 148 by 210 mm invitation: set the names at 32 pt across one row, keep 22 mm of clear ground beneath before the venue at 9 pt, and hold 18 mm of margin left and right of the widest stem.
Pre-production check
Thin serifs print unevenly on textured card; print one invitation on the actual board and inspect the ends of the stems.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Display · Fine contrast capitals with a sweeping S and a suspended curved M centre
- Foundry / creator
- Burntilldead
- Ligatures
- Ligatures mentioned in designer listing
- Alternates & swashes
- Stylistic alternates or swashes mentioned
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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