About This Demo

Thieves turned over every case in the night. The master left for the Punchcutters' Fair at dawn, and you are the apprentice: alone in a 1920s print shop, lamps on, with lead type all over the floor.

This free demo opens the whole shop: every room, upstairs and down, and you can step outside whenever you like. Gather and put away up to 1,000 sorts, a fifth of the full game: enough to fill two cases, earn their keys and print their posters on the press. And your save carries over: when the full game comes out, you pick up right where the demo left you.

Put the shop back in order

Comb the whole shop: under the press, behind the machines, up on the gallery and into the corners. Every sort you pick up has a case waiting for it.

Read the lead

Nothing on a piece of type says where it lives. You read the letter itself: the serifs, the contrast between thick and thin, the slant of the axis, the shape of the g. Two faces are almost twins until you know what to look at.

Set it, ink it, pull it

A finished case gives up a key, and the key opens an iron box with a job inside. Set the text backwards and mirrored, lock the forme, print the poster, hang it on the wall. Look closely at every sheet: the master's safe will want to know what it hides.

In the demo

• The whole print shop, upstairs and down, free to explore
  
• Up to 1,000 sorts to gather and put back where they live: a fifth of the full game
  
• Two cases to complete, each with its key, its iron box and its poster, pulled by hand on the press
  
• Your progress carries over to the full game
  
• Single player, first person, no timers and no fail state

In the full game

Around 5,000 sorts, ten typefaces and ten posters, a shop that slowly starts to answer, hidden tools to find and a safe whose combination your own wall spells out. Add What Da Font to your wishlist to know when the shop opens its doors, and tell us what you think of the demo in the discussions.