Blok was presented along with this unassuming description from the designer: “Built on a square grid, Blok’s variable axis conforms to your canvas. With pre-defined weights ranging from 2×1, through to 1×16, Blok is as flexible as it is structured.”

Blok’s designer is Samuel Oakes, and his outstanding achievements disabuse him of the need for hyperbole. Mr. Oakes appears in the top ten fonts of both 2017 and 2018 with his perfect Oakes Grotesk, a font now seen throughout the world in innumerable settings.

Blok is intriguing and fantastic far beyond Oakes’s factual description. Blok is something different altogether—a dense, enigmatic typeface that intimates technology and corporations of the future, the high-tech space corporations that will mine asteroids and construct interstellar farms. Blok is strong, immovable, and unpassable—exactly like your message will be.

Samuel Oakes‘s heavily fortified wall is perfect for corporate logo, logos generally, headlines, posters, art projects, social media, visual identity, corporate image, film, music and books. Blok is powerful and slightly ominous—one might expect a deep, low hum from its imposing dark glyphs. Blok evokes the “Grates of windows drowned in black,” from the poetry of Alexander Blok—dark metal, faceless power, nightfall.

To explore Blok’s magic, visit the type tester and try its various emanations. Perhaps with some appropriate music. Try out Blok’s rounded versions to draw out a more traditional look that still has heavy treads. Go XS to see its full future-proof authority. Blok is an example of typography’s scope and unlimited possibility. We hope it helps you define a cutting edge nobody is even thinking about yet—but you know that they will.