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Love Jokes + Base Edge
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College slab display
Love Jokes
Love Jokes is a college slab in cream on a rust-red ground: heavy caps with wide block serifs, a low waist and closed counters, set on two lines between two oval badges that read ESTD and 2026, with a tracked line beneath.
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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 Love Jokes.
The two words are stacked and the drawing is a college slab at a heavy weight: the serifs are wide blocks, the waist is low, and the counters are generous, which keeps the face legible at a distance and on fabric. The plate is styled as a period athletic badge — two oval stamps flank the block and a tracked line sits beneath — which is how a college design is usually sold, and the rust ground gives the cream something to fight. Because the letters are wide, a long word needs a large size and short lines, and the specimen sets two short words that fill the width. The tracked line beneath is set in the same family at a fraction of the size, which shows the range within one style.
Slab, athletic, bold, retro
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Love Jokes with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Love Jokes + Hello Honey
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Love Jokes’s stroke geometry.
Kit lettering for a college team
A college slab reads at distance on a jersey, and the wide serifs hold in embroidery where a bracketed serif loses shape at small size.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the team name at 90 mm on a banner, 55 mm on a jersey back and 20 mm on a pocket, keeping the serifs uncut. Place the jersey number at 130 mm and allow 12 mm between letters.
Pre-production check
Check the 20 mm pocket mark in stitch, where a wide serif can close the counter; simplify the initials. Confirm the jersey back reads at eight metres and that the number stays centred.
Badge for a barbershop
A college slab gives a small shop an instant badge, and the closed counters read at speed from a passing car, which matters for a business on a busy road.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 90 mm round badge: the name at 22 mm cap height, the year in a 6 mm oval, and a 2 mm ring. Keep 6 mm inside the die and print two colours on a matte stock.
Pre-production check
Check the 22 mm name inside the ring, where the outer letters can crowd the edge; reduce the width. Confirm the badge reads at three metres and that the ring stays registered.
Shirt graphic for a graduation
A college slab marks a class year as official, and the heavy strokes print as one screen with no fine detail to clog the mesh.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 240 mm chest graphic: the class year at 70 mm, the name at 34 mm, and two inks on a light shirt. Keep the thinnest serif at 4 mm and place the graphic 80 mm below the collar.
Pre-production check
Check the screen at actual mesh, where a 4 mm serif can fill; thicken it. Wash-test one shirt and confirm the year stays legible after five cycles.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · College slab display
- Foundry / creator
- Ardi (7NTypes)
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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