Paperwhirl Fold

Paperwhirl Fold is an original groovy 1970s display font made of folded paper ribbons. Every letter is built from wide, flat strips with square-cut ends that bend smoothly. The strip is 108 units wide on straights, widens to about 153 units where it turns on curves, and narrows to 72 units into a fold. Where a strip folds sharply at a corner (E, F, G, L, Z, z, 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7), it is cut by one clean, thin diagonal fold gap about 30 units wide, like a creased paper ribbon. No glyph has more than two folds (E has two). Folds sit at corners, so they never change what a letter is. Smooth curves stay whole, and sharp turns such as A, M, N, V and W use a flat-creased mitre with no gap. Each folded glyph keeps at least 91% of the ink of its unfolded version. Great for posters, retro party invites, shirts, stickers, labels, signs and crafts.

Font-only download: one ZIP with PaperwhirlFold-Regular.ttf, a true CFF OpenType .otf, .woff and .woff2, plus README and LICENSE. Six files total. One Regular style with selective kerning.

Character set: uppercase A–Z, lowercase a–z, digits 0–9, space and non-breaking space, and these 20 punctuation marks/symbols: . , ! ? ' " : ; - & @ # $ % ( ) / + = *. No accented letters, smart quotes, alternates or ligatures. Use straight quotes and apostrophes.

No texture or distress. The font has clean solid outlines, with no paper texture, grain, shading or distress of any kind. The fold gaps are clean cut-outs, not a texture. It is a single-colour font, not a colour font: the avocado background, mustard title colour and striped ribbon arcs on the listing image are presentation only.

Size note: a display face, best from 24 px up. The fold gaps show on most letters from about 24 px and on all of them from about 36 px. At 12–16 px the thin gaps fill in on screen, so letters read as solid ribbon letters. They stay legible, and every counter stays open.

Quality checked: every glyph was checked in all four formats for coverage, clean closed outlines, spacing, metrics and kerning, and passed the OpenType Sanitizer. Thin and fold scans on the shipped outlines found nothing thinner than 50 units, every fold gap 29–31 units wide and open, and no glyph with more than two folds. FontBakery found zero fails on TTF and OTF and zero warnings on OTF. The TTF has one contour-count warning: fold gaps split some strips into separate contours, and a few glyphs such as % are drawn differently from a typical font. Legibility was checked on 24 px and 120 px word renders, and glyphs were reviewed large and at 12–24 px. Desktop installation, craft apps and physical production were not tested.

Licence: commercial use for physical finished products such as cards, shirts, labels, signs and crafts. Do not resell, share or redistribute the font files. WOFF/WOFF2 are for personal/local web previews only; public web hosting or embedding and digital end-product distribution are not licensed. Contact Maker Pixel for broader rights. Digital download only; nothing is shipped. Unzip first and install either TTF or OTF, not both. After purchase, sign in and open My Downloads.