Dividend

Dividend is inspired by the perforated numbers made by an antique check-cutting machine. Literally used to cut the dollar amount into a bank check or stock certificate (hence the term "cut a check"), these punched-out numbers were difficult to alter, a low-tech but efficient way of helping counter fraud. Unlike today's dot-matrix technologies, in which numbers have to be shaped to conform to a standard grid, these perforated numbers took the opposite approach, adapting the position of the holes to best suit the form of each individual number. We continued this idea, allowing the size and proximity of dots to vary from one number to the next.

Dividend with Gotham

Dividend with Gotham Rounded

Dividend with Archer