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Broad angular outlined jersey capitals with heavy inner fills
Jersey Modern
Jersey Modern is a broad angular jersey alphabet drawn as an outline with a heavy inner fill, built for stacked two-line athletic lockups and large garment prints.
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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 Jersey Modern.
The J drops a straight descender from a flat arm, the E holds three even bars with cut corners, the R carries a straight leg and the S reverses through flat diagonal terminals rather than curves. The construction is angular: corners are cut at a slight bevel and the outer edge runs parallel to the inner fill, which is what gives the face its modern jersey look rather than a vintage collegiate one. Weight is heavy and uniform, the counters are small and rectangular, and the fit is tight so a long school name holds one line. Because the outline is a separate layer, a designer can colour the body and the edge independently. The cream ground, the brown and gold fills, the small star rule and the banner caption are presentation; the typeface is the two words.
Angular · Outlined · Athletic
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Jersey Modern with grounded secondary typography.
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Jersey Modern + Sweet Pumpkin
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Jersey Modern’s stroke geometry.
Two-colour team banner
The outline and inner fill let a banner carry a team colour inside a contrasting edge, and the angular construction reads at distance in a gym.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the team name at 100 mm on a 1.5 m banner, fill the body in the team colour and the edge in white, and leave 40 mm at each end so the outline is not cut.
Pre-production check
A two-layer outline needs accurate registration; check the pull at final size and hold the outline at 3 mm minimum.
Hoodie back print for a season
The angular jersey face suits a hoodie back print, and the inner fill lets the lettering read on a dark garment where a plain outline would vanish.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the school name at 85 mm across a 300 mm back width, keep the year in the same face at 30 mm beneath, and keep 30 mm from the shoulder seam so the print stays on the panel.
Pre-production check
Screen printing an outline over a dark shirt needs a white base; check a pull on the actual hoodie and adjust the opacity rather than the design.
Header for a sports programme
The outline construction gives a programme header its athletic voice at print size, and the inner fill keeps the word solid on uncoated stock.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the header at 56 pt across the cover, keep the fixture list in a 9 pt sans, and hold 18 mm below the header so the outline does not run into the text.
Pre-production check
An outlined face on uncoated paper spreads at the edges; check the press sheet and keep the outline at 2 mm minimum.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · Broad angular outlined jersey capitals with heavy inner fills
- Foundry / creator
- WNIdesign
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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