Store Norske Skrik - Grotesque typeface with a strong, insistent voice, shaped by shifting proportions, tense curves and varying stroke endings.

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About

Store Norske Skrik is a grotesque typeface with a strong, insistent voice. Its name refers to Edvard Munch’s Skrik (The Scream), and to a broader quality in his work, where line and distortion became a more central part of what the image communicated.

In a scream, it is hard to separate the form from the message. In Skrik, certain features insist on being noticed. Shifting proportions, tense or squared curves and varying stroke endings interrupt the regularity of the typeface and give it a strong presence.

These irregularities were drawn from a study of Venus, Ideal Grotesk and Grotesque 215, which together form a short line of development within the grotesque tradition. Looking at the three together reveals a period when construction was direct and functional, but less controlled than in the systematic sans serifs that followed.

These irregularities have their own internal logic. They are not mannerisms added for effect, but traits that emerged naturally through evolution. In continuous text they settle into the overall rhythm, where some become almost imperceptible while others remain just visible enough to stay in character. As the type grows larger, these irregularities come forward and the manner of speaking becomes harder to ignore.

Store Norske Skrik is designed by Arve Båtevik.

Technical information

For full technical specifications and character overview, please see the technical section at the end of the specimen PDF.

Language support

Skrik supports a broad Latin character set covering Western European, Central European, South European, North European, Baltic, Turkish, Celtic, South-Eastern European, Nordic, Sami and Romanian language use.

Supported languages include Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bemba, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lule Sami, Luxembourgeois, Maltese, Northern Sami, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Scottish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Southern Sami, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh.

Character sets and encodings

Skrik includes an extended Latin character set with uppercase and lowercase letters, diacritics, localised forms, ligatures, numerals, tabular figures, fractions, inferiors, superiors, punctuation, mathematical symbols, arrows, combining marks and stylistic alternates.

OpenType features

Skrik includes OpenType features for access to alternates, glyph composition and decomposition, localised forms, subscripts, scientific inferiors, superscripts, numerators, denominators, fractions, ordinals, proportional figures, tabular figures, case-sensitive forms, discretionary ligatures and standard ligatures.

The font software has five stylistic sets: ss01 for alternate lowercase a forms, ss02 for alternate lowercase g forms, ss03 for alternate lowercase t forms, ss10 for multiplier forms and ss11 for alternate multiplication sign forms.

Feature tags: aalt, ccmp, locl, subs, sinf, sups, numr, dnom, frac, ordn, pnum, tnum, case, dlig, liga, ss01, ss02, ss03, ss10, ss11.