A type family by Mark Caneso / ps Type

Four families. Forty styles.

Everyone
in.

Serif, sans, and two monos.
Four related families.
One very lively identity.

Meet Panel
Panel Swim Club
An original type specimen
Scroll to get
your feet wet ↓
01 / The whole familyFour related voices

Same water.
Different strokes.

One collection, four ways to speak. Pair a generous serif headline with a clear sans paragraph. Put either mono to work when every character needs the same amount of space.

Weight
Style

Panel

Proportional serif

The water’s lovely.

5 weights
Roman + italic

Panel Sans

Proportional sans

Open to everyone.

5 weights
Roman + italic

Panel Mono

Monospaced serif

06:30 EARLY BIRDS

5 weights
Roman + italic

Panel Sans Mono

Monospaced sans

lane.open = true;

5 weights
Roman + italic

All related. Never identical.

4 families × 5 weights × 2 styles = 40 fonts

02 / Poolside, in Panel

One family can run
the whole place.

Panel Swimming SocietyAfter hours / No. 04

DEEP
END

For thoughts that won’t fit
in the shallow bit.

Panel Black / Light Italic / Panel Sans

The club towel / Hang in there.

PANEL
100% CHARACTER

Today’s
good plans.

Serious lengths

Leisurely widths

Floating opinions

Absolutely no emails

All speeds welcome.
Walking indoors, please.

Panel / Panel Mono / Panel Sans

Pool notesNo. 04 / An afternoon well spent

The art of
doing nothing

The first length is for the things you brought with you. The list. The deadline. The sentence that would not behave. By the second, the water has a few suggestions of its own. Look up. Follow the light across the tiles. Let somebody faster pass. There is no prize for finishing an afternoon early. Stay for another length, or sit on the edge and let your feet do the thinking. Either way, you are making excellent progress.

Panel Regular08

An excellent use
of your afternoon.

Panel Light Italic / Panel Sans Mono09

Even the pool has a back end.

Orderly.
Up to a point.

Two monos for schedules, interfaces, and the code that keeps it all afloat.

Laps000

A little exercise for your numerals.

pool.tsFour lanes. No tabs.
Set the code in
const pool = {
  lanes: 4,
  styles: 40,
  mood: 'buoyant',
};

function takeALap(lane: number) {
  return lane >= 1 &&
    lane <= pool.lanes;
}
✓ All lanes openNo emails detected
03 / A little structureFrom one idea to forty styles

It started
in a lane.

Mark Caneso began Panel as a monospaced design: lively letters sharing a fixed amount of space. The idea grew into four coordinated families, from expressive serif to practical sans, with two monos keeping the rhythm.

Meet Panel at ps Type ↗

Same size. A different rhythm.

Panel / Proportional widths

Panel Mono / 740 units per character

The mono gives every letter the same advance. The proportional serif gives each one the room it needs.

04 / The scenic routeOpen-loop terminals

A lovely way
to go around.

Panel’s open-loop terminals curl back on themselves, leaving a pocket of space inside the letter.

Here, Panel Mono Light Italic trades its usual endings for a set of looping alternates. Same rhythm. A rather different mood.

Permission to take your time.

fancya dip?

Panel Mono / Light Italic

Follow the curl.

Choose a letter. See where it goes.

This is one face’s stylistic set. Available alternates vary across the family. Explore them in the tester.

f
Default
f
Looping alternate
05 / The practical pool40 REAL FACES / YOUR WORDS

Your words.
Take them for a swim.

Pick a family, set a weight, and try your own text. The pool is yours.

Style
Alignment
Panel / Black
A PLACE TO START
OpenType options 7 for this face

Try an option here. Its sample changes even when your own text has no matching characters.

06 / The character poolLETTERS / NUMBERS / BEAUTIFUL EXTRAS

Every character
gets a turn.

Find a letter, number, or mark. Select it for a closer look.

Start with the main set, or explore every glyph, including the alternates without a Unicode character.

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Every supplied face is here. Alternate forms are drawn from the font’s own outlines, so even glyphs without a keyboard character can be seen.

07 / An afternoon offThree ways in. Something lovely to take home.

How do you
do nothing?

Take a short swim through the club. Choose a route. Find something peculiar. Leave with a print for your wall.

Choose your company, your pace, your peculiar discoveries.
Every route makes a different specimen.

No account.
No stopwatch.
No wrong turns.