Glaser Houdini

From P22 Type Foundry

Milton Glaser commented about this type family: “The typeface is called Houdini after the famous American magician. I wanted to produce a letterform that would gradually disappear as one line after another was removed.” The various versions of Houdini presented by P22 include those originally offered as phototypesetting fonts, plus a solid and an outline version — a variation of which was used for Sesame Place children’s park in 1980. These Houdini variations can all be layered on top of each other for a range of chromatic effects. Each of the Houdini fonts contains over 375 characters for full European language coverage. The family is taken to its logical conclusion with the bonus font “P22 Glaser Houdini Vanished.” This font shares the same spacing and kerning as all of the Houdini font but lacks all visible outlines. Over the years there have been many typefaces that borrowed heavily from the Glaser designs, but these are the only official fonts approved by Milton Glaser Studio and the Estate of Milton Glaser.

Designed by Milton Glaser & Terry Wüdenbachs

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Language Support

  • Catalan
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Fula
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Malay
  • Maltese
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish
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Glaser Houdini A

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini B

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini C

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini Inside

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini Outside

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini Open A

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini Open B

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini Open C

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini Fade A

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini Fade B

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini Fade C

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Glaser Houdini Vanished

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character Map
latin capital letter a U+0041
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Uppercase Letter Latin

Lowercase Letter Latin

Modifier Letter

Nonspacing Mark Inherited

Decimal Number

Connector Punctuation

Dash Punctuation

Close Punctuation

Final Punctuation

Initial Punctuation

Other Punctuation

Open Punctuation

Currency Symbol

Modifier Symbol

Math Symbol

Other Symbol

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