If you were working on a computer in 1991, Aarcover was what you dreamed of making when you grew up. While the original designer of the typeface Static is lost to history, I’ve traced it back to specimens that appeared in the collections of Solotype and Castcraft (Typefounders of Chicago). I first encountered it through the adapted and converted version by David Charles Randolph Rakowski, a composer who also happened to be one of the early digital type weirdos. Aarcover looked like someone tried to draw lighting and somehow succeeded. It was shareware electricity: wild, sharp, and straight chaotic.
BTC Arc Lover takes that jolt of early PC voltage and cleans up the current. The lines are tighter, the corners make more sense, and the static buzz has been tuned into something deliberate. It is less a relic and more a reboot, a revival that respects the glitch while making it sing in tune.
It comes with a complete punctuation suite, extended Latin support, and a variant of capitals hiding in the lowercase set. BTC Arc Lover still hums with that same retro voltage, but now it hums in stereo in four weights and four styles.
If the original Aarcover was a noisy bedroom demo recorded onto a floppy disk, BTC Arc Lover is the remastered LP, the same riffs, the same manic energy, but sculpted into something you can actually crank through good speakers. It is neon, it is nostalgic, and it still smells faintly of ozone and printer ink.
4 Weights/Styles
Created 09/2025
Based on Design by David Rakowski
Designed by Matt Scott Barnes