Arugula Font
A downloadable font
Arugula is a military-style stencil sans-serif in quite narrow proportions. It is developed from found stencilling on the side of a case of rocket ammunition.
The name is a pun, Arugula is one of the names of the edible plant Rocket.
At more than 150 glyphs, the repertoire is enough to support Welsh, Slovenian, basic English, and a smattering of West European and African languages; Dutch IJ is supported.
Accents in the font can be placed onto letters and numbers using the Unicode combining feature. This allows the font to support Ento, a Martian language documented by Sara Weiss, which uses an umlaut below (Unicode U+0324); as well as other marks that this font supports.
For wayfinding, arrows are supplied, and markers for croissant, coffee, and fountain.
Release Notes
2025-03
- /IJ digraph (for Dutch) added; available as Unicode U+0132 and also as a /I_J ligature enabled with
dlig; accent support is experimental to dubious. - Alternate for /j added: with a flat, not upturned, hook.
- Alternate for /zero added: zero with blackslash (and improbably bridged counters).
- /asterism U+2042 ⁂ added.
- U+2234 THEREFORE ∴ and U+2235 BECAUSE ∵ added.
- microadjustments to ↔️.
A more complete list of languages supported (from Font Book):
Afrikaans, Asu, Bemba, Bena, Cebuano, Chiga, Cornish, Corsican, Dutch, English, Gusii, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Jju, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Lojban, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malay, Maori, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Shambala, Shona, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Swahili, Swati, Swiss German, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Tyap, Vunjo, Welsh, Western Frisian, Xhosa, Zulu
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Development log
- Arugula Font: A few more glyphsMar 12, 2025
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I loved this font! It’s being used and plays a significant role in the game I am working on here https://fczuardi.itch.io/contractor-hero
Thank you very much, []s
That is very cool, thanks for letting me know! Technically, because the included licence does not permit distributing the font in a game, this requires a new licence. I’m happy to supply a licence, but i’d be happier if you bought the font (sorry if you already have, it’s hard to match to usernames in the purchase info). e-mail me using my e-mail at the top of this page: https://about.cubictype.com/
oops, my bad, I must have misread the license, sorry :]
I am temporarily changing the font another with a license that allows embed. But lets continue this chat over email, I still think your’s is a better fit, so lets try to make this happen. Thanks for the clarification.