Decutto
Decutto is a neo-grotesque that packs the Marionette formula and some blackletter ideas into a low-contrast sans serif design. Its name plays on the phrases “off cut” and “cut to” which express the key feature – the contemporary legible letter shape is decorated with cut carved edges and counters, giving the typeface crisp and simplistic look, like that of an old minted coin.
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Concept
The letter shape has pronounces features of the William Dwiggins’ M-formula that makes the overall texture sharper and creates some visual contrast between the rounded outer black shape and the squared inner white counter shape. This simplification makes the text clear and sharp at a small body size and somewhat mannered at a heading size. The typeface also received some features of blackletter, such as diagonal calligraphic strokes in uppercases, a modest triangular serif in the upper left corner of lowercases, and thickening at the end of the ascenders and descenders.
Tech details
Specimen: Decutto.pdf
Styles: Light, Regular, Medium, Bold
Scripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian, Arabic, Hebrew
Languages: 500+
Glyphs: 1917
Hinting: Manual PostScript
Format: OTF – OpenType with PostScript outlines
Version: 2.006
Released: June 1, 2023
Updated: April 27, 2025
Features
Stylistic Set 1 “Arrows”: Left: <- Right: -> Up: <| Down: |> Left Right: <-> Up Down: <|> North West: <\ North East: /> South East: \> South West: </
Stylistic Set 2 “Sharp period”: All period symbols are replaced with its sharp alternate version rotated 45 degrees.
Stylistic Set 3 “Sans Serif Capitals”: ITUY capitals (and their versions with diacritical marks) lose horizontal serifs.
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Case conversion for monotonic Greek: ΆΈΉΊΌΎΏ. Greek uppercase accented characters lose their tonos accent and retain only dieresis in All Caps mode. Turned on by default. If you need tonos accents in All Caps then turn off Contextual Alternates (calt) feature.
Case Sensitive Forms: ()[]{}‹›«»-–—•·#%‰@ and Arrows are centered on capitals. Oldstyle figures (if presented) are replaced with Lining figures.
Lining Figures: 0123456789 #%‰. Figures are the same height as uppercase letters (capitals height).
Oldstyle Figures: 0123456789 #%‰. Designed to work with lowercase letters.
Ordinals: adehnorst
Superscript, Subscript, Numerator, Denominator: 0123456789
Fractions: ¼½¾⅐⅑⅒⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚⅛⅜⅝⅞⅟ (precomposed). Any other fractions (even those typed through a slash) will also be displayed correctly, with the automatic replacement to Numerator + fraction + Denominator.
Slashed Zero: All “0” figures are replaced with a slashed/dotted zero.
Discretionary Ligatures: Th
Localized Forms: Characters substituted by their adapted alternate form for Azeri, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch, German, Kazakh, Macedonian, Moldavian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Tatar, Turkish languages.
Glyph Composition: Set of diacritics (600+ characters) precomposed from a base characters and combined diacritical marks.
Mark Positioning: Diacritical marks positioned for a base characters.
Arabic shaping: Feature required to process a shapes of the Arabic languages. Initial Forms, Medial Forms, Terminal Forms, Required Ligatures.
Languages
Arabic: Arabic, Kurdish, Malay (Jawi), Pashto, Persian (Farsi, Dari), Talysh, Urdu, Uyghur
Hebrew: Hebrew (Modern)
Greek: Greek (Modern)
Mkhedruli: Georgian
Cyrillic: Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aleut, Altai, Avar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chaplino, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Dargwa, Dungan, Enets, Erzya, Even, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Kazakh, Khalkha, Khanty, Kildin Sámi, Komi, Koryak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgian, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Mordvinic, Nenets, Ossetian, Romanian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Siberian Tatar, Tabasaran, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urum, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut (Sakha)
Latin Europe: Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arvanitika, Asturian, Balkan Romani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cimbrian, Colognian (Kölsch), Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jèrriais, Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), Kalaallisut, Karelian, Kashubian, Kven, Ladin, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Manx, Megleno-Romanian, Mirandese, Montenegrin, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Picard, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Prussian, Romani, Romanian, Romansh, Rusyn, Sami (Inari, Lule, Northern, Southern, Pite, Skolt, Ume), Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene (Slovenian), Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German, Tosk, Venetian, Veps, Võro, Walloon, Walser, Welsh
Latin Asia: Amis, Ao, Asu, Atayal, Azerbaijani, Falam, Hakha Chin (Lai), Hani, Hmu (Qiandong Miao), Karakalpak, Khasi, Kurdish, Mizo, Nagamese (Naga Pidgin), Oroqen, Talysh, Tatar, Tedim, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Zaza
Latin Oceania: Acehnese, Anuta, Arrernte, Balinese, Batak, Bikol, Bislama, Buginese, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chuukese, Cook Islands Māori (Rarotongan), Drehu, Fijian, Filipino, Gilbertese (Kiribati), Gooniyandi, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Indonesian, Javanese, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Madurese, Malaysian Malay, Māori, Marquesan, Marshallese, Meriam, Minangkabau, Murrinh-Patha, Ngiyampaa, Niuean, Noongar, Palauan, Paluan, Pijin, Pintupi, Pohnpeian, Rotokas, Samoan, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Toba Batak, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tuvaluan, Uab Meto (Dawan), Ulithian, Wallisian, Waray, Warlpiri, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Yapese, Yindjibarndi
Latin Africa: Acheron, Afar, Afrikaans, Aghem, Aja, Akan, Bafia, Bagirmi, Bambara, Baoulé, Bari, Bariba, Basaa, Bemba, Bena, Berba (Biali), Boko, Bono (Abron), Bushi, Cape Verdean Creole, Central Kilimanjaro, Central Yambasa (Yangben), Chewa (Nyanja), Chokwe, Comorian, Dagaare, Dagbani, Dangme, Dendi, Dholuo, Dinka, Dongolawi (Andaandi), Duala, Dyula, Edo (Bini), Embu, Ewe, Ewondo, Fante, Fon, Fula (Borgu Fulfulde, Maasina Fulfulde, Nigerian Fulfulde), Ga’anda, Gen, Gonja, Gusii, Hausa, Igbo, Jola, Kabiyè, Kabyle, Kako, Kamba, Kanuri, Kaonde, Keiyo (Elgeyo, Kalenjin), Kenzi, Khoekhoe (Nama), Kiga, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi (Rundi), Kissi, Kituba, Kongo, Konjo, Koyra Chiini, Koyraboro Senni, Kpelle, Krio, Kwanyama, Kulango, Kwasio, Limba, Lingala, Lobi, Lozi, Luba-Katanga, Luba-Kasai (Tshiluba), Luchazi (Nyemba), Luhya (Luyia), Luo, Maasai, Makhuwa, Makonde, Makwe, Malagasy, Maninka, Maore, Mauritian Creole, Mbelime, Mende, Meru, Meta’, Miyobe, Mooré (Mossi), Mundang, Mwani, Nateni, Ndebele, Ndonga, Ngiemboon, Ngomba, Nkore, Nobiin, Nso (Lamnso), Nuer, Nyamwezi, Nzima, Onĕipŏt, Oromo, Otuho, Ovambo, Pedi, Pherá (Xwela), Pulaar, Pular, Rangi, Rombo, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sena, Seychellois Creole, Shambala, Shilha (Tachelhit), Shilluk, Shona, Soga, Somali, Soninke, Sotho (Nothern, Southern), Sukuma, Susu, Swahili, Swazi, Taita, Tammari, Tasawaq, Teso, Temne, Tiv, Tonga, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Twi, Umbundu, Vai, Venda, Waama, Waci, Wasa, West Kilimanjaro, Wolof, Xhosa, Yao, Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu
Latin South America: Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri (Harákmbut), Antillean Creole, Apinayé, Arabela, Asháninka, Ashéninka, Awa Pit (Cuaiquer), Awetí, Aymara, Bora, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Caribbean Hindustani, Cashibo, Chaʼpalaa (Chachi), Chayahuita, Chiltepec Chinantec, Cofán, Ese Ejja, Garifuna, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Huastec, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Jamaican, Kaingang, Kaqchikel, Kashinawa, K’iche’, Mam, Mapuche (Mapudungun), Matsés, Miskito, Murui Huitoto, Nahuatl, Nawat (Pipil), Nomatsiguenga, Northwestern Otomi, Ojitlán Chinantec, Páez, Papantla Totonac, Papiamento, Purépecha, Qʼeqchiʼ, Quechua, Saramaccan, Secoya, Seri, Shipibo, Shuar, Silacayoapan Mixtec, Siona, Sranan Tongo, Ticuna, Toba (Maskoy), Tojolabal, Totontepec Mixe, Tsafiki, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Urarina, Waorani (Sabela), Wayuu (Guajiro), Xavante, Yagua, Yaminawa, Yanesha’, Yanomamö, Yucatec Maya, Záparo, Zapotec
Latin North Native American: Abenaki, Aleut, Chickasaw, Gwich’in, Hän, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Innu-aimun (Montagnais), Lakota, Mi’kmaq, Mohawk, Munsee, Muscogee (Creek), Navajo, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Unami, Zuni
Latin Constructed: Esperanto, Ido, Interglossa, Interlingua, Interlingue (Occidental), Klingon, Latino sine Flexione, Lojban, Novial, Slovio, Volapük
Glyphs
Glyphs highlighted in green are not encoded with a Unicode value. These are stylistic or contextual alternates, ligatures, small caps, oldstyle or tabular figures, decorations, localized forms, Arabic initial-medial-final forms, etc. Since they don’t have Unicode values, you can’t manually copy-paste them between different applications. These glyphs can be accessed by OpenType features, or through the Glyphs panel in the graphics editors.