A condensed serif whose stems ripple like air over hot sand, for posters, book covers and travel titles.

Desert Mirage starts from a tall, condensed serif and then lets the heat get to it. Every stem has a rippled edge, as if you were looking at the letters through hot air rising off a dune. The bones stay classic: small bracketed serifs, a two storey a, narrow proportions. That is why the words stay readable while the outlines wobble.

The effect scales with size. In the 820 pt Mm close-up the waves turn into deep, flame-like ripples, while at 44 on the size ladder they settle into a faint tremor along the stems. Use it big. Caravan and festival posters, record sleeves, book covers for desert or road stories, menu headers for a café with a sunset palette. On the Oasis Route card it fills half a travel poster in cream on deep teal.

Inside you get 94 glyphs for English: 26 capitals, 26 lowercase letters, figures 0 to 9 and the common punctuation, including quotes, parentheses and a hyphen. One Regular weight, in OTF, TTF, WOFF and WOFF2.

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