Mr Chips was designed by DC Scarpelli and published by The Ampersand Forest. Mr Chips contains 6 styles and family package options. The font is currently #25 in Hot New Fonts.
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!
