New font family: Hexonu

My recent font releases have featured alternative letter sets. PoultySign and Caltic have alternate letters sets based on trapezoids. Lentzers alternates letter sets based on concave and convex lenses. Another pair of shapes that will snuggle together are convex and concave hexagons and they form the basis of the typeface family Hexonu. However, the base hexagon is not one with both vertical and horizontal symmetry but rather a lopsided hexagon that takes the classic coffin shape.

Hexonu is a family of three variants, each with two weights. The patterns of the three variants are shown below.

Below are samples of each of the six styles. I originally intended to create only the first two variants but then realized that a font formed from flipping coffin shapes might be more useful and perhaps more appealing then the originals.

This typefaces was an experiment and I was not sure what the end result would be. It is monospaced and its uses are limited to situations where a large point size as well as quirkiness and weirdness are needed.

The alternating letters can be voided by turning off the contextual alternative feature. If you are using a program that does not support contextual alternatives, the alternating sets will not appear automatically but will have to be created by manually alternating upper and lower case keys. If you do not use the alternating letters, you may also want to adjust character spacing.