Scarab Serif was built in FontForge in about 2 hours with no experience, no guides, and plenty of guesswork. Kerning pairs were largely overlooked, overshoots were miscalculated, and stretched forms like the letter 'S' or 'C' didn't quite land.

It's imperfect, but it was a crash course in breaking typography and learning the hard way what works and what doesn't.

Scarab Serif Condensed follows the same unrefined, rushed approach as its sibling. Letters were aggressively squashed and adjusted in further for a more condensed look. Typography rules were still largely ignored, and the result is my favorite of the two, oddly functional for this site, though only at smaller sizes.

This was a fast, unpolished challenge, and a great lesson in why typography is as much art as it is precision.