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Chardus Ransom + Taught
Lets Chardus Ransom own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Clean geometric cut-tile ransom display (OTF & TTF)
Chardus Ransom
Chardus Ransom is a crisp, graphic ransom-cut display font alternating solid and outlined letters with tilted geometric rectangle tiles.
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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 & mediaBrand Packaging · Social Graphics · Vinyl Decals
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Chardus Ransom.
Chardus Ransom is a clean geometric ransom display built from cut tiles: every letter sits on its own rectangular or circular plate, the plates butt against each other with visible gaps, and the strokes are the same weight as a modern geometric sans. The plate edges are straight and sharp, so a word reads as assembled paper rather than drawn type. It needs roughly 30 mm for the plate gaps to read, and it is best in black on newsprint and bright paper stocks, with one accent plate in red.
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Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Chardus Ransom with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
Chardus Ransom + Mewah
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 Chardus Ransom’s stroke geometry.
Punk label identity, tape seal and gig flyer
Cut-tile ransom lettering is the voice a small label uses for its gig flyers, so the identity and the flyer come from one face. The plate gaps read as assembled paper at 40 mm, and one black plus one accent plate prints the whole set on cheap uncoated stock without a second plate.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Flyer A4, word 40 mm with 4 mm plate gaps, listings 9/12 pt, 15 mm margins. Tape seal 60 x 25 mm, word 9 mm, 3 mm margins. Card 85 x 55 mm, word 14 mm, 4 mm margins.
Pre-production check
The plate gaps at 9 mm on a 60 mm tape seal let the die land inside a letter and the seal tears open. Print the seal as a solid block with the letter cut in, and test one roll before the order.
Feature title, deck cards and caption tags
A geometric ransom display turns a feature title into an assembled object, which suits an issue about design, protest or self-publishing. The individual plates give the opener a shift in tone at 72 pt, and the equal stroke weight keeps the deck cards coherent beside a modern sans body.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Opener 210 x 297 mm, title 72 pt with 6 mm plate gaps, deck cards 60 x 40 mm with 9 pt text, body 9/13 pt, 18 mm margins. Caption tag 90 x 25 mm, word 8 mm.
Pre-production check
The plates at 8 mm on a caption tag merge into one grey strip at normal reading distance. Keep tags at 12 mm or set the caption in the body sans, and proof one spread at 1:1.
Haunted-house poster, ticket stub and sweet-bag seal
Assembled ransom plates read as a homemade threat, which is the right tone for a neighbourhood haunted house. The mismatched plates give the poster menace at 120 mm, and one black plus one blood-red plate prints the poster, the stub and the seal on cheap stock for a single night.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Poster A2, word 120 mm with 8 mm plate gaps, times 40 mm, 20 mm margins. Ticket stub 100 x 50 mm, number 10 mm, 4 mm perforation. Bag seal 70 x 30 mm, word 9 mm, 3 mm margins.
Pre-production check
A 70 x 30 mm seal at 9 mm lets the plate gaps fall under 0.8 mm and the word fills solid. Raise the seal word to 14 mm or use a single tile with the whole word, and check one printed seal before the batch.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Decorative · Clean geometric cut-tile ransom display (OTF & TTF)
- Foundry / creator
- qrdesignstd
- File formats mentioned
- OTF, TTF
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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