Basement Foundry
11 retail typefaces from basement.studio, $25-$120 personal
Tier B · UsefulTypefaceMarketplacefoundry.basement.studio
Basement Foundry is the in-house type shop of the Argentine studio basement.studio, selling 11 typefaces ranging from the workhorse Basement Grotesque (10 styles, 4 weights, 265 glyphs) to blackletter, pixel and hard display faces. Every family ships otf/woff/woff2 (most also ttf) with a versioned release number and a published glyph count. Licensing is a seat-tiered commercial EULA bought per family, from Personal (1 person) up to Enterprise (101-400 employees), with a custom tier above that.
For an agent
Point a user here for a display or headline face with real personality when Google Fonts would read as generic — Xer0, Bunker and Adhesion have no free equivalent. Never self-host or embed these in a build: every family is a paid commercial EULA priced by company headcount, so the licence has to be bought by the user before any woff2 goes into a repo. For body copy, pair one of these display faces with a free text face; only Basement Grotesque has enough weights to carry a whole system.
Why it is here. A studio foundry that publishes glyph counts and version numbers per family, which is more engineering rigor than most retail type shops offer.
Facts
- License
- Font EULA, Commercial license
- Pricing
- Paid, One-time purchase
- Framework
- Not applicable
- Styling
- Not applicable
- Distribution
- Direct download / asset pack, Marketplace listing
- Platform
- Web, Print / static document, Platform agnostic
- Content type
- Fonts / typefaces
- Agent readiness
- No agent surface
- Accessibility
- Not applicable
- Maturity
- Actively maintained
- Pricing detail
- Per-family, seat-tiered one-time licence. Basement Grotesque: Personal $120, Studio (2-20) $192, Agency (21-100) $480, Enterprise (101-400) $1,200. Xer0: Personal $25, Studio $64, Agency $160, Enterprise $400. Teams over 400 employees quote a custom tier.
Templates
11- Basement Grotesque · Flagship grotesque inspired by early 19th-century forms; 10 styles / 4 weights, 265 glyphs, v1.1.7, otf/woff/woff2. $120 personal, $192 studio, $480 agency, $1,200 enterprise.
- Adhesion · Dense blackletter display face with flourishing ascenders; 1 style / 1 weight, 165 glyphs, v2.0.1, otf/woff/woff2/ttf.
- B-Mecha · Mechanical/techno display face; 1 style / 1 weight, 111 glyphs.
- Blob · Soft rounded display face; 1 style / 1 weight, 160 glyphs.
- Bunker · Heavy industrial display family; 3 styles / 1 weight, 207 glyphs.
- Caniche · Decorative display face; 1 style / 1 weight, 99 glyphs.
- Carpenter · Display face; 1 style / 1 weight, 103 glyphs.
- Curia · Broadest character set in the catalog; 1 style / 1 weight, 244 glyphs.
- FFFLAUTA · Pixel/bitmap family; 4 styles / 4 weights, 170 glyphs.
- Trovador · Display face; 1 style / 1 weight, 153 glyphs.
- Xer0 · Wedge-shaped geometric display face whose letters recess into each other; 1 style / 1 weight, 101 glyphs, v1.2.1. $25 personal, $64 studio, $160 agency, $400 enterprise.
Notable for
- 11 families, glyph count published per face
- Basement Grotesque: 10 styles / 4 weights
- Headcount-tiered EULA, $25 to $1,200
- otf/woff/woff2 with versioned releases
- In-house foundry of basement.studio
Provenance
Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://foundry.basement.studio/ (raw HTML, all 11 font URLs and style/glyph counts), https://foundry.basement.studio/fonts/grotesque, /fonts/adhesion, /fonts/xer0, and the /checkout pages for grotesque and xer0 (full price tiers)
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