Bengaluru · since 2019
Three families,
drawn slowly.
Quire is an independent foundry. We release rarely, licence perpetually, and host nothing on your reader's behalf. Every trial below is the complete family.
Catalogue
3 families
Quire Text
Serif, for reading · 14 styles · 2021
Reading is the only test
Drawn for long paragraphs on screens that are not very good.
Quire Grotesk
Sans, for structure · 18 styles · 2019
Structure before style
The first family. Signage bones, softened just enough to sit in a paragraph.
Quire Mono
Monospace, for machines and people · 10 styles · 2023
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A monospace you can also read aloud from.
Set in Quire Text, 16 to 72
How we licence
01
Trials are the whole family
The trial is every weight and every axis, watermarked in the licence file rather than crippled in the outlines. You cannot judge a typeface from three weights, and a foundry that gives you three is protecting itself from your judgement.
02
Perpetual, and no page limits
Licences do not expire and are not metered by traffic. Charging a publisher more because more people read them is a strange way to price a tool that costs nothing to copy.
03
Self-hosted only
The webfonts are files you serve. There is no foundry CDN, so no request from your reader’s browser to us, and nothing for us to log. A type licence should not come with a tracking pixel.
04
Updates are free and versioned
Every release is dated and kept. When a face is revised you get the new one and the old one keeps working, because a font update that reflows a book is not a favour.