GROUND MOTION — LIVE RECORD
ACTIVITY M 0.0
01 — LIVE SPECIMEN
ANYBODY VARIABLE — 2 AXES + SYNTHETIC TILT
LAST EVENT —
SPHINX OF BLACK QUARTZ, JUDGE MY VOW
GRADE: FIELD SPECIMEN
SET LIVE — NO TWO RENDERS ALIKE
AXES
† ANYBODY CARRIES NO SLANT AXIS. TILT IS A SHEAR — LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HERE.
PRESETS
02 — TYPEFACE INDEX
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01
TEXT / 14 STYLES / 2025
M 2.3 — CONTINUOUS
A text face with a caffeine problem. Never quite settles, never quite fails. Optimized for footnotes, disclaimers, and other nervous small print.
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02
DISPLAY / 8 STYLES / 2024
M 8.1 — SHALLOW
Display weight measured in tonnage. Set one word and evacuate the rest of the page. Kerning approved by structural engineers.
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03
OBLIQUE / 12 STYLES / 2026
M 5.6 — RECURRING
An oblique that keeps swinging after you stop pushing. For corrections, retractions, and second editions.
03 — MANIFESTO
STABILITY IS A TYPOGRAPHIC LIE.
Type was cast in lead and told to hold still. It obeyed for five hundred years.
Five hundred years of well-behaved serifs, locked to grids nobody voted for.
But every page is built on a fault. Every em square is a tectonic plate.
We do not draw letterforms. We draw the ground they fail on.
A letter that cannot move is a fossil. A paragraph that cannot flinch is a tombstone.
Set your headlines at magnitude. Ship your captions with a seismic disclaimer.
If your type has never moved anyone — move the type.
04 — LICENSING
| LICENSE | COVERAGE | PRICE | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROOF | 1 seat, weight 400 only | $0 | The calm before. No refunds; nothing to refund. |
| DESKTOP | 5 seats per family | $89 | Install. Print. Frame it, if you must. |
| WEB | 100k pageviews / month | $129 | Self-hosted only. We serve bedrock, not CDNs. |
| APP | 1 title, unlimited installs | $349 | Embedding permitted. Blame for crashes is not transferable. |
| BROADCAST | Unlimited impressions | $890 | If the type shakes on television, that was intentional. Cite us. |
| THE BIG ONE | Everything, forever | $1,906 | All current and future faults. Aftershocks included. Price commemorates San Francisco. |
* All prices USD, per family, per fault. Ground stability not guaranteed at any tier.
** Faultline Type is not liable for structural damage caused by excessive weight (900).