Madcap (2024) has its roots in a style of lettering that its designer, Mark Simonson, used frequently when he was in high school in the early seventies. He was inspired by comic book and greeting card lettering from the sixties. Madcap’s lively appearance comes from its skewed geometry, which avoids anything aligning to a square axis or grid, yet does so with a rhythmic and consistent logic. It’s an all-caps design, and features an alternate lowercase-style “E” and a full set of dingbats.
Mark Simonson Studio is home to a range of typefaces that are as thoughtful and unique as their namesake, Mark Simonson. Each distinctive family of fonts is created as a tool for making things, not ends in themselves. For graphic designers and typographers, this means that each detail included was well-considered and will help your work look its very best. Whether display or text, sans, serif, or script, there is a perfectly suitable typeface that will fulfill every need in your design brief.
As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for:
Design Projects
Create images or vector artwork, including logos
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.