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Our playful Pim (and the Analogue Pixels, Pim for short) came a long way. As natural as it feels in our catalog with all the fun features you have come to expect from a digital typeface today, the initial version was actually designed for letterpress printing. Designer Pieter van Rosmalen produced the analog fonts in polymere and wood, every monospaced letter a square cube.

These letterforms were inspired by the iconic ‘Pootjesglas’ etalage lettering in Dutch shop windows of the mid 20th century, named after Johannes Willem ‘Pim’ Pootjes. The wide, round shapes, distinct ball terminals and bold, round punctuation of these glas advertising boards had fascinated van Rosmalen for a long time. While analogue Pim only consisted of capital letters, digital Pim adds an extensive repertoire of lowercase, alternates, pictograms, ornaments, borders, patterns and display numerals that hark back to their origin. It covers the extended Latin and Cyrillic character-set (with Bulgarian and Serbian alternates) across three weights and an inline style.

All glyphs were drawn on a square and have an extremely high x-height with no descenders. Because of this Pim can be set very tightly, best with no additional interline spacing (leading). Three different sets of ‘clip-on’ swashes can be connected to the capital letters of the Latin as well as Cyrillic character-set. When you type [, {, or ( followed by an uppercase letter, the bracket is replaced by a swash and the uppercase letter adjusts to connect to it. Typing a hyphen, dash, or caret between bracket and letter creates a ‘connector’ stroke for longer swashes.

For basic uppercase initials there are also Pootjes-inspired alternative ‘Art Deco’ characters available. Manicules (index fingers), emoji, arrows, symbols and googly eyes umlauts round out the character-set and enable all the fun we need in our lives right now.

We can’t wait to see what you design with Pim.

Designer
Pieter van Rosmalen

Assisted by
Aleksandra Saļumenkova
Jacques Le Bailly
Edgar Walthert

2025

Pim supports the following languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chechen, Chiga, Chuvash, Colognian, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Erzya, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jju, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kazakh, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Macedonian, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Meru, Mohawk, Mongolian, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Northern Sotho, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Ossetic, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Russian, Rwa, Sakha, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Tajik, Taroko, Tatar, Teso, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Tyap, Ukrainian, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek, Vunjo, Walloon, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa and Zulu.

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