Affluent

Affluent isn’t a pretty typeface—and that’s the point. Born in the dying days of the CRT, it was engineered to solve a problem most designers didn’t even know existed: small text that shimmered, dazzled, and tore your eyes apart on cheap TVs.

Its verticals run clean and unrestrained, but the near-horizontal lines are quantized and sharpened—an intentional quirk that killed the blur without killing the vibe. The result is a sans-serif with a strange, technical pulse; part retro game HUD, part laboratory label maker. Available in Regular, Semi-Bold, Bold, and Italic, Affluent is as versatile as it is uncompromising. It speaks clearly across dozens of Latin-based languages, but always in its own voice: cold, digital, and a little bit weird.

Affluent works where gloss and polish would feel dishonest—retro console branding, dystopian UI mockups, sci-fi packaging, and anything that needs that early-2000s hardware grit. It’s typography with a story etched in phosphor.