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Ironcrest + Lemon Milk Pro FTR
Creates crisp high-hierarchy contrast beneath Ironcrest headlines across menus, websites and labels.
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Heavy rounded mixed-case slabs with coarse worn fill and a pierced capital
Ironcrest
Ironcrest shows cream mixed-case lettering against dark green-black, where the lowercase bowls stay thick and rounded, the r carries a curled shoulder, the t rises into a blunt wide crossbar and the capital I holds a small dark hole near its upper section while fine mottling roughens the fill.
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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 & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Ironcrest.
The slabs stay blunt and heavy, the bowls stay round, the terminals square off and a single capital carries a pierced hole. That punctuation is the character: the word reads as a riveted industrial plate rather than a plain slab, which is why the plaque frame and the nut motif sit around it. Those are cover graphics, and the mottling is a texture inside the fill. Keep 44 pt so the pierce stays visible, check the texture in your own file and do not rely on the frame.
Heavy rounded mixed-case slabs with coarse worn fill and a pierced capital
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Ironcrest with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Ironcrest + Handwritten
Adds a warm human signature touch for 1-to-3-word callouts without competing against structured serif capitals.
Inspect Handwritten specimenPractical applications
Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Ironcrest’s stroke geometry.
Label for a metal workshop
The industrial slab gives a metal workshop a hard mark, and the pierced capital gives a short name a recognisable detail.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 60 by 90 mm label: set the workshop name at 24 pt on one row, keep 10 mm of clear ground beneath before the street at 7 pt, and keep 6 mm to the die edge.
Pre-production check
The pierced hole closes under 20 pt; check the plate proof and hold the name at 22 pt or above.
Sign for a maker's market stall
The plate weight reads across a maker's hall, and the mottled fill gives the painted sign a used industrial character that a clean slab would lose.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 600 by 300 mm board: set the stall name at 56 mm on one row, keep 24 mm of clear ground beneath before the prices at 15 pt, and keep 26 mm of border all round.
Pre-production check
The mottling may be a texture layer; check the file before planning a flat one-colour print.
Heading for a manufacturing feature
The blunt slabs set a manufacturing trade heading, and the rounded bowls keep a long company name readable on a pale page.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 210 by 280 mm page: set the heading at 52 pt on one row, keep 20 mm of clear ground beneath before the standfirst at 10 pt, and keep 20 mm of margin at each side.
Pre-production check
Texture inside the letters fights small text; check the page and keep the heading large throughout.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · Heavy rounded mixed-case slabs with coarse worn fill and a pierced capital
- Foundry / creator
- Wow Magic
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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