Identify Jérémie Hornus’ poster family
Indian Type Foundry’s Thug account credits Jérémie Hornus and distinguishes Plain and Rough heavy slab-serif designs. The publisher describes a contemporary approach rather than a nineteenth-century wood-type revival. Rough includes three differently distressed versions of each letter to reduce obvious identical-letter repetition.
Compare repeated letters before adding more distress
Use STREET LETTERS as a fictional lettering-exhibition title. Mark the repeated letters, then inspect the available Rough versions in the original family’s glyph controls. Change one repeated pair while retaining a default-form copy. Compare that result with Plain at the same size and line break. This reveals what the built-in texture contributes before any separate image overlay enters the design.
Keep the poster’s information independent of its texture
Place the opening time and venue in a plain reading face, then inspect the complete poster at the intended output size. Anton and Bitter are independent comparison fonts here; they do not supply Thug’s rough alternatives. If you instead need a portable styled name, explore the homepage’s copyable text options, keeping their Unicode substitutions separate from choosing Thug in a font-capable design application.
Your questions, answered.
Who designed Thug?
Jérémie Hornus designed the Indian Type Foundry family covered here.
What is the practical difference between Plain and Rough?
The publisher distinguishes a clean Plain design from Rough, which supplies multiple distressed versions of letters for more varied repetition.
Sources & background
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