Spoof
Geo Daddy
Irreverent
Gawkish
Futuristical
Designer
Lewis MacDonald
Released
August 2018
Updated
July 2026
Version
2.000

A slightly irreverent contribution to the geometric sans genre, Spoof takes cues from rationalist predecessors like Futura, Neuzeit Grotesk and Avant Garde, but subverts the style with some exaggerated proportions and more grotesque elements.

Strict geometry and orthogonal terminals lend the illusion of calm uniformity; uncomfortably tight aperatures, some unbalanced forms, and an ungainly underbite in the open-bowled glyphs undermine that feeling of precision, creating a gawkish look.

László Moholy-Nagy
TUBULAR STEEL FURNITURE TODAY
autumnal refractions reverberate within my ellipsoid volumes
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The New Proto-Cubist Zeitgeist
① Natalia Goncharova Mikhail Larionov ② ③ Kazimir Malevich Vladimir Mayakovsky ④ ⑤ Velimir Khlebnikov
Cylinder Habitats
Aarnio studied architecture at the Institute of Industrial Arts in Helsinki and graduated in 1960. He started his own office in 1962. The following year, he introduced his Ball Chair, a hollow sphere on a stand, open on one side to allow a person to sit within. The Ball Chair was introduced to the international public at the Asko stand at the Cologne furniture fair in 1966. The similar Bubble Chair was clear and suspended from above. Other innovative designs included his Pastil Chair (a beanbag-like molded armchair), and Tomato Chair (a seat molded between three supporting spheres). His Screw Table, as the name suggests, had the appearance of a flat head screw driven into the ground. He was awarded the American Industrial Design award in 1968. Aarnio’s designs were an important aspect of 1960s popular culture, and could often be seen as part of sets in period science-fiction films. Because his designs used very simple geometric forms, they were ideal for such productions. Eero Aarnio continues to create new designs, including toys and furniture for children. He was awarded the Compasso d’Oro in 2008 for a design called Trioli, a combination rocking horse and child-sized chair which is part of a collection for Magis.
1962 ↘ Sulphuric Congress The Function of Lines ↩ Lozenge ↝ Composition
André Courrèges’ “Moon Girl” collection, introduced the white go-go boot and other icons of the 1960s
In a 1952 series of articles written in Collier’s, Dr. Wernher von Braun, then Technical Director of the Army Ordnance Guided Missiles Development Group at Redstone Arsenal, wrote of a large wheel-like space station in a 1,075-mile orbit. This station, made of flexible nylon, would be carried into space by a fully reusable three-stage launch vehicle. Once in space, the station’s collapsible nylon body would be inflated much like an automobile tire. The 250-foot-wide wheel would rotate to provide artificial gravity, an important consideration at the time because little was known about the effects of prolonged zero-gravity on humans. Von Braun’s wheel was slated for a number of important missions: a way station for space exploration, a meteorological observatory and a navigation aid.
Lunar Monorail
Slight underbite
Tight aperatures
Bottom-heavy forms
Alternate 2 (OFF)
Alternate Q (OFF)
Un-Slashed Zero (OFF)
OpenType Features
SS01Alternate 2
SS02Alternate Q
ZEROUn-Slashed Zero
CASECase-Sensitive Forms
Languages Supported
Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Maltese, Manx, Morisyen, Northern Sami, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek (Latin), Volapük, Vunjo, Welsh, Western Frisian, Zulu
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Character Name — [LIGA]
Unicode Hex —
Spoof Family
£336
Thin
£40
Thin Slanted
£40
Light
£40
Light Slanted
£40
Regular
£40
Regular Slanted
£40
Medium
£40
Medium Slanted
£40
Bold
£40
Bold Slanted
£40
Black
£40
Black Slanted
£40
Total
£40