Mustard-yellow oil paint squeezed straight from the tube and pushed into rounded lowercase letters. The strokes are fat and glossy, with a bright specular line running along the top of each curve and a soft shadow underneath. Nothing here is flat. Every letter sits proud of the surface, the way paint does before it has had time to settle.
Paint Straight From the Tube
This is paint at the moment it leaves the tube, since no brush has touched it yet. Strokes are thick and rounded, with the ridge you get from squeezing rather than the flat edge you get from painting. A hard highlight runs along the top of every curve, so the surface reads as wet. Because the yellow is a deep mustard and not a primary, it stays warm instead of turning into a warning sign.
The Oil Yellow Font Writes in Lowercase
Almost every material alphabet goes uppercase, yet the Oil Yellow Font commits to lowercase. Letterforms are round and slightly childlike, notably the single-storey a and the bounce along the baseline. That looseness suits the medium, since squeezed paint cannot hold a rigid grid anyway. Capitals and numerals come along too, though the lowercase is where the character lives. Naturally the ascenders end in a blunt, slightly squashed tip.
