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Jake + Bareum
Creates crisp high-hierarchy contrast beneath Jake headlines across menus, websites and labels.
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Very heavy collegiate slab capitals with tight spacing and flat slabs
Jake
Jake is a very heavy collegiate slab in capitals only, with flat rectangular slabs, tight spacing and almost no internal space left in the counters.
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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 Jake.
Every letter is built as a solid block: the J carries a slab at both ends and a short hook, the A closes to a narrow apex with a low bar, the K joins its arms at a sharp vertex and the E holds three flat bars of equal weight. The slabs are plain rectangles with no bracketing, and the spacing is tight enough that the word reads as a single wide block rather than as separate letters. Counters are narrow slits, which is what gives the face its weight at a distance, and there is no contrast or lightness anywhere. The face is capitals only and intended for short words. The grey ground, the format notes and the watermark badges are presentation; the typeface is the word and the alphabet shown below it.
Heavy · Collegiate · Blocky
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Jake with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Jake + Abigail
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 Jake’s stroke geometry.
Locker room and gym signage
The slab weight reads from the far end of a corridor and holds up when cut in vinyl or painted on a block wall, and the tight counters keep a long team name compact.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the team name at 20 cm on a 2 m wall panel, keep the room labels in a clean sans at 6 cm, and hold 12 cm of margin so the heavy slabs are not cut by a corner.
Pre-production check
Cut vinyl of a slab face with tight counters needs bridges inside the A and the R; check the cut file at full size before the plotter starts.
Team shirt front print
A heavy collegiate slab is the standard register for a team shirt, and the tight spacing makes a long name fit a chest print without shrinking the height.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the name at 90 mm tall across a 260 mm chest width, keep the number in the same face at 150 mm, and leave 20 mm between the two lines so the slabs stay distinct.
Pre-production check
Screen printing a tight counter on a dark shirt fills in; check a pull on the actual garment and open the A and R counters slightly.
Header for a sports history feature
The collegiate weight gives a feature a period stadium voice, and the tight spacing lets a long school name hold a single headline line.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the header at 56 pt on the opening spread, keep the body in a 10 pt serif at 13 pt leading, and hold 18 mm above the header so the heavy blocks do not crowd the top margin.
Pre-production check
Heavy slabs on newsprint gain ink and close their counters; check the press sheet and keep the header at 52 pt if the A and R begin to fill.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · Very heavy collegiate slab capitals with tight spacing and flat slabs
- Foundry / creator
- Raholco
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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