BRANDSWOT Modular
A pixel display typeface built from brickwork. Every pixel of its 5 × 7 grid is laid in three courses of running-bond masonry, so the letters read as built, not drawn.
Designed by Gowtham Sai for BRANDSWOT Consultancy, Hyderabad, India. Free and open source under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Specimen & download →
Family
| Roman | Italic |
|---|
| Light 300 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Regular 400 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Medium 500 | ✓ | ✓ |
| SemiBold 600 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bold 700 | ✓ | ✓ |
| ExtraBold 800 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Black 900 | ✓ | ✓ |
Variable wght 300–900 | ✓ | ✓ |
Weight lives in the mortar: Light opens the joints, Black closes them. The letters never change shape.
Character set
Google Fonts Latin Core: English and every Western, Central and Eastern European Latin language — French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian, Hungarian and more. Indian Rupee ₹, Euro, Pound, Yen, arrows, smart quotes, guillemets, © ® ™, combining accents with mark positioning.
Use it
Desktop
Download the latest zip from Releases, open otf/, select all, install.
Web — CDN (no install)
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/brandswot-modular@2/css/brandswot-modular.css">
h1 { font-family: "BRANDSWOT Modular", monospace; font-weight: 900; }
Web — npm
npm install brandswot-modular
import "brandswot-modular"; // Vite / webpack / Next.js
Web — self-hosted
Copy fonts/webfonts/BRANDSWOTModular[wght].woff2 and BRANDSWOTModular-Italic[wght].woff2 to your site and use css/brandswot-modular.css.
Tailwind
// tailwind.config.js
theme: { extend: { fontFamily: { modular: ['"BRANDSWOT Modular"', 'monospace'] } } }
Best above 32 px. It is a display face: headlines, signage, packaging, motion titles, UI numerals.
Licence
Free for personal and commercial use — logos, products, apps, print, broadcast. You may modify and redistribute it under the same licence. You may not sell the font files by themselves. Full terms: OFL.txt.
"BRANDSWOT" is a trademark of BRANDSWOT Consultancy.
Build from source
Every letter lives in one readable file, sources/BRANDSWOTModular.pixels: # is a pixel, . is empty. Edit, then:
pip install -r requirements.txt
make build # pixel file → UFO masters → TTF, OTF, variable, WOFF2
make test # FontBakery, Google Fonts profile
make zip # desktop download
Requires Python 3.10+.
Credits
Design: Gowtham Sai
Foundry: BRANDSWOT Consultancy — branding and growth consultancy, Hyderabad · Bengaluru
Custom type and brand work: [email protected]
