So, are fonts cut from paper now?

Not really, but the latest type trend sure looks like that.

Faux Icing
UX Collective
Published in
4 min readFeb 19, 2023

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A pair of hands cutting a piece of paper into the letter ‘x’. Other pieces of paper with different alphabetic shapes are scattered throughout the image.
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On this issue of Type Founds, we’ll be taking a look at trending type designs that imitate paper cut-outs, and how they might have originated from thinner, Brutalist fonts.

It was a hazy memory, but I think I saw it once on someone’s Twitch stream. He was scrolling through this…

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