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Mr Chips

Mr Chips

by The Ampersand Forest
Individual Styles from $35.00 USD
Complete family of 6 fonts: $180.00 USD
Mr Chips Font Family was designed by DC Scarpelli and published by The Ampersand Forest. Mr Chips contains 6 styles and family package options.

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About Mr Chips Font Family


Mr Chips is a love letter to modern text serif families like Century Schoolbook and Scotch Romans of all kinds.


There's nothing precious about Mr Chips. He's built sturdily, but with a less upright stance than his forebears, with a lower, more relaxed x-height. Mr Chips is dependable and true, with recognizable shapes that make him a pleasure to read. He's a Clarendon, but without the bulkiness that makes Clarendons difficult in text.


Mr Chips has character sets for Western Europe, Cyrillic, and monotonic Greek. He has a full set of true small caps for versatility and hierarchy, and some fun and functional ligatures.


His alternate characters include a one-story a and g in the upright versions, straight and curly Ka's and Zhe's in Cyrillic, and two styles of ampersand.


He's an all around usable, agreeable guy!


Mr Chips is a companion typeface to Miss McGee, also from The Ampersand Forest!

Designers: DC Scarpelli

Publisher: The Ampersand Forest

Foundry: The Ampersand Forest

Design Owner: The Ampersand Forest

MyFonts debut: May 27, 2022

Mr Chips

About The Ampersand Forest

The Ampersand Forest is DC Scarpelli. And probably vice versa. I am a wholly inveterate Type Nerd. I’ve been in love with letterforms my whole life, and, for 16 years, I taught type history, type design, and typography as a college professor. Type is voice, and I love giving people a voice. A variety of voices, actually, so that they can choose whichever one is best for them for a particular context. And I don’t just mean designers, either! Type’s for everyone, and every typeface has a purpose and context.For me, deliciousness—flavor—is key. Not all type has to be “good type,” whatever that means. It should be designed with thought and care and craft. It should be supremely usable. But it should aim beyond usability toward (trust me: this is the right word) yumminess.

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