What is the Apocalypso™ font?

Apocalypso is a pictogram font for the end of the world. The name Apocalypso is a portmanteau of the words apocalypse (end of the world) and calypso (joyful improvised music), with a meaning analogous to the idiom ‘fiddling while Rome burns’. The Apocalypso family is more of an art project than a practical font and contains a series of crosses and pictograms. The crosses add decorative detailing to typographic layouts, whilst the pictograms can be deployed to express the forthcoming apocalypse. Apocalypso was originally published in 1997, a few years before the turn of the millennium. It is both a document of the ideas of the time and a scarily prophetic vision of a possible world that has now largely come to pass.

Apocalypso™ Font families

The Apocalypso™ includes the following font families:

• Apocalypso Pictograms
• Apocalypso Crosses

Apocalypso™ Preview

Here is a preview of how Apocalypso™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.