Leslie Cabarga’s Kobalt family is a typographic homage to the 1920s and 1930s. There is a dash of Kabel and a pinch of Berlin Sans in the trio, but Cabarga has added his sense of humor to the mix, and the result is decidedly more humane than most deco designs. From the built-in bouncing baseline of Kobalt Kartoon to the playful lowercase of Kobalt Bold and the geometric caricatures of Kobalt Black, these three faces have personality. Both the Bold and Black weights are based on lettering used in European posters.