Alper Çakıcı’s Boulder separates surface treatment from weight
The Boulder family published by AlperCakici credits Alper Çakıcı. Its styles include Regular, Outline, Shadow, Rough, Sandpaper, Inked and their various italic companions. These are not simply successive weight settings. To choose a surface treatment for FIELD NOTES, compare Regular with Outline and Sandpaper using the same text, size and color. Keep the plain version beside the others while checking which small details survive the intended printed size.
Dez Boulder offers three personalities and OpenType details
Dez Boulder by Chris E. Lozos is a separate Dezcom display family: Ego, Id and Alter. Its publisher documents small caps, small-cap figures, fractions, alternates and case-sensitive punctuation. Try the same fictional issue heading in each style before adjusting a feature. Then compare a small-cap issue label and its figures against ordinary capitals and lining figures. Preserve the full family name in your project notes so another editor does not substitute the unrelated AlperCakici product.
Boulder Mono’s split italic is a construction choice
The Letters’ Boulder Mono credits Mark Gowing for design and Ben Kiel for mastering, and lists its release as 2018. Circles and squares organize the monospaced shapes; the split italic divides and offsets letters at structural points. Compare an upright and matching italic in a short FIELD NOTES heading, then inspect the word spacing in a longer caption. Its schoolbook a is an alternate, not a separate alphabet to paste. The monospaced-font comparison explains the broader category. The homepage character styles change Unicode text; they do not reproduce these families’ textures, alternates or split-italic outlines.
Your questions, answered.
Are all Boulder styles weights of one family?
No. AlperCakici Boulder, Dezcom’s Dez Boulder and The Letters’ Boulder Mono are separate products. Texture styles, alternate personalities and weights should not be treated as interchangeable.
Who designed Boulder Mono?
The Letters credits Mark Gowing for design and Ben Kiel for mastering; its original resource lists a 2018 release.
Sources & background
Sources supporting this page’s explanations. Practical examples are our editorial suggestions.