Neue Machina Inktrap

A powerful and meticulously crafted typeface boasting monospace/geometric type features as well as apparent and deep ink traps in its heavier weights

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Licenses starting at $40

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Thin 100
Ultralight 200
Light 300
Regular 375
Medium 450
Semibold 600
Bold 700
Ultrabold 800
Black 900
Thin Italic 100
Ultralight Italic 200
Light Italic 300
Regular Italic 375
Medium Italic 450
Semibold Italic 600
Bold Italic 700
Ultrabold Italic 800
Black Italic 900

Neue Machina Inktrap

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Leading

Spacing

A love letter to the digital age.

Neue Machina Inktrap

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Leading

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What does it mean to be human… when everything around us is built by machines?

Neue Machina Inktrap

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Neue Machina. Designed for the post-human condition. It isn’t just a font. It’s a construct—engineered at the intersection of man, machine, and memory. A product of the post-industrial aesthetic, it channels the techno-precision of circuit boards, the structured silence of brutalist architecture, and the layered philosophy of Ghost in the Shell.

Neue Machina Inktrap

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This is a typeface that lives in a world where identity is fluid, where bodies are enhanced, replaced, or forgotten, and where consciousness might exist entirely in code. Neue Machina doesn’t pretend to be organic—it embraces the artificial. Its forms are clean, monospaced in feel, with surgical precision and geometric poise. Yet in its rigidity, it carries a kind of emotion. Like a synthetic voice learning how to feel. It’s a love letter to the digital age, but also a critique. Sharp terminals. Repeating patterns. No unnecessary flourishes. It was designed not just to speak, but to transmit—messages from a future we’re already living. Inspired by the cyberpunk philosophy of Ghost in the Shell, Neue Machina carries that same quiet tension: the idea that under all the tech, all the wires, all the sleek surfaces… there’s still a soul trying to break through. Used in branding, UI, editorial, or motion graphics, Neue Machina doesn’t whisper. It announces. It speaks in system prompts and headline grabs. It’s the voice of a world running on code—clean, efficient, and uncomfortably beautiful. And just like the Major—part-human, part-machine—it asks: Is identity defined by how it was made… or what it’s used to say?

Neue Machina Inktrap is variable

Neue Machina
Inktrap Family

Glyphs View

Discretionary ligatures

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Alternate a

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Alternate r

r

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Alternate G

G

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Alternate R

R

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R

Alternate g

g

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g

Alternate k

k

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Alternate Y y

Y y

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Y y

Monospaced r

r

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r

Alternate Curly Brackets

{ }

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{ }

High Contrast y

y

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y

Alternate &

&

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Plain Zero

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Standard ligatures

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Case sensitive forms

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A love letter to the digital age.

Neue Machina is a powerful and meticulously crafted typeface boasting monospace/geometric type features as well as apparent and deep ink traps in its heavier weights ● It is inspired by the aesthetics of robotics and machines ▲ a font suited for the future of technology ■ It was design to be versatile, to blend in your designs in its lighter weights or to give them a lot of personality in its heavier ones.

It comes in a Inktrap cut as well as a Plain cut for your more subtle designs. Each cut comes with their corresponding italics and everything is variable for maximum versatility!

Designers

Collaborators

Styles

18 Styles

18 Styles with 737 Glyphs each
Including Italics & Cyrillic Support

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Version

2.00

Latest update: May 2022

Available formats

OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Language Support

Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lituanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Saami, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish ... (and more)