Milk Drops is a semi-casual-feeling cross between a didone and slab serif display font. Elegant, flourishy, whimsical and bold, as much as one font can be any or all of those things! It has highly contrasting weights, but not so much to take itself too seriously or risk legibility.
Playfully, it entertains the teardrop motif wherever it can – in expected areas like the descender of a “y” and the ascender of an “f”, but also in some whimsical flourishes. Many of the uses of the teardrop motif are implemented on the terminals and ears where many old prints may have suffered from bleed of ink – answering a “what if” question like “what if those accidental bleeds were designed on purpose?” or “what if a font were designed as though it was already seen through blurry eyes?”
Milk Drops also features stencil-like open counters and lots of ligatures (32). Note also, it has some super-nerdy additions like symbols for Bitcoin, Pilcrow, Interrobang and Irony Mark.
Language Support: Milk Drops is highly versatile – with an impressive count of 470 glyphs, it can accommodate up to 78 latin-based languages.
Designer: Adam Celeban
Publisher: Duck Soup Design
Developed: 2017-2019
Release date: 10 Sep 2019
Updated: 15 Nov 2022 to include two stylistic sets, ordinal and tabular figures, and to support localised forms for Moldovian and Romanian.