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Loud,
legible.

Designer

Michael Cina

2019-2023

Query Pro is a gothic that carries a long-running interest in industrial wood letters, mid-century display gothics, and the directness of vernacular American type. Held together in a face that reads with clarity across editorial, display, and identity work.

Family Size

9 Styles: Roman

Features

5 stylistic sets, super and subscript numbers, multiple figure styles, enclosed alphanumerics, symbols, arrows, and character alternates.

Character sets

Latin Extended. ~400 glyphs per weight. 297 languages.

Licensing

Desktop/Print, Web, Content, App/Game, Logo/Wordmark, Core Media, All Media. Custom License Available.

Formats

OTF, WOFF2, Variable (based on license type)

 
Regular
Shuffle
Query Pro/AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
1234567890!@#$%
 
Shuffle
Query Pro/AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
1234567890!@#$%

Nine styles run from light through black, alongside a variable file. The character deepens across the weight axis, with the wood type personality becoming more present in the heavier styles. Three stylistic set levels tune the typeface for text, display, and identity contexts. Over 400 glyphs per style, with support for 297 languages.

Variable type description

Variable type description

Query Pro Variable
Axis
0
AaBbCc01234567890!@#$%^&*()
AaBbCc01234567890!@#$%^&*()
Query Pro

Query's character shifts as the weights move. Lighter weights run cleaner and more modern, with wood type influence held in reserve. Heavier weights pull the wood type personality forward.

 
Regular
Size
200
Leading
0.90
Tracking
0.000em
OT Features
No features available

A gothic w/ teeth holds personality alongside clarity. (ss01)

 
Regular

A gothic w/ teeth holds personality alongside clarity. (ss01)

 
Regular
Size
200
Leading
0.90
Tracking
0.000em
OT Features
No features available

Different weight(s) carry different character.

 
Regular

Different weight(s) carry different character.

 
Regular
Size
200
Leading
0.90
Tracking
0.000em
OT Features
No features available

Necessity is a good reason to draw a typeface!

 
Regular

Necessity is a good reason to draw a typeface!

Query’s personality lives in its proportion and in the small irregularities, giving the family a distinct voice and a clean reading rhythm. Built for the jobs designers actually take on.
Query’s personality lives in its proportion and in the small irregularities, giving the family a distinct voice and a clean reading rhythm. Built for the jobs designers actually take on.
Nine styles run from light through black, with the wood type personality intensifying across the weight axis and becoming most visible in the heavier cuts. The full range is drawn to work as a system, with different weights taking on different roles within a composition.
Nine styles run from light through black, with the wood type personality intensifying across the weight axis and becoming most visible in the heavier cuts. The full range is drawn to work as a system, with different weights taking on different roles within a composition.
Three stylistic set levels tune the typeface by context: a text level for extended reading, a display level for headline and cover work, and an identity level where the voice excels. Each style carries over 400 glyphs and covers 297 languages, with numerals, punctuation, and symbols drawn with the same attention as the letters.
Three stylistic set levels tune the typeface by context: a text level for extended reading, a display level for headline and cover work, and an identity level where the voice excels. Each style carries over 400 glyphs and covers 297 languages, with numerals, punctuation, and symbols drawn with the same attention as the letters.
 
Regular
Size
200
Leading
0.90
Tracking
0.000em
OT Features
No features available

9 weights, 3 stylistic sets, 400+ glyphs...

 
Regular

9 weights, 3 stylistic sets, 400+ glyphs...

 
Regular
Size
200
Leading
0.90
Tracking
0.000em
OT Features
No features available

Ask better questions.

 
Regular

Ask better questions.

 
Regular
Size
200
Leading
0.90
Tracking
0.000em
OT Features
No features available

BUILT LOUD. or quiet. (Variable)

 
Regular

BUILT LOUD. or quiet. (Variable)

 
Regular
Size
72
Leading
1.00
Tracking
0.000em
OT Features
No features available

Query Pro is a nine-style gothic family, tuned for modern use, with a strong personality, full legibility, and three stylistic set levels that shift the typeface for text, display, and identity contexts.

 
Regular

Query Pro is a nine-style gothic family, tuned for modern use, with a strong personality, full legibility, and three stylistic set levels that shift the typeface for text, display, and identity contexts.

 
Regular
Size
28
Leading
1.15
Tracking
0.000em
OT Features
No features available

Wood type was made for impact. Cut from end-grain hardwood and used on broadsides, posters, and signage, it was the loudest type available before phototype and offset displaced it. Most of what survives in the catalogs from Hamilton, Page, and Morgans and Wilcox was drawn for use at twelve picas and up, with the character carried in the weight and the proportion. Query Pro takes that tradition as its foundation. The references run wide: Karl Heinz Domning's Quadra57 (1974), Hamilton's Class L gothics, Ludlow's 6-EC Gothic Extra Condensed, Silvertone wood type, the Beatles' Help LP cover, and the I AM A MAN posters from the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. The mix is industrial, vernacular, and cultural, drawn together in a single voice. The work carries personal lineage. Michael Cina began drawing typefaces in college out of necessity, and Test Pilot Collective, the foundry he co-founded in the late 1990s, ran on the same instinct: draw the type that does not exist yet. Query Pro extends that line. Three stylistic set levels calibrate the typeface for text, display, and identity contexts. Throughout, the voice lives in the proportion and in the small irregularities carried over from wood letters, which gives the family its balance of presence and clarity.

 
Regular

Wood type was made for impact. Cut from end-grain hardwood and used on broadsides, posters, and signage, it was the loudest type available before phototype and offset displaced it. Most of what survives in the catalogs from Hamilton, Page, and Morgans and Wilcox was drawn for use at twelve picas and up, with the character carried in the weight and the proportion. Query Pro takes that tradition as its foundation. The references run wide: Karl Heinz Domning's Quadra57 (1974), Hamilton's Class L gothics, Ludlow's 6-EC Gothic Extra Condensed, Silvertone wood type, the Beatles' Help LP cover, and the I AM A MAN posters from the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. The mix is industrial, vernacular, and cultural, drawn together in a single voice. The work carries personal lineage. Michael Cina began drawing typefaces in college out of necessity, and Test Pilot Collective, the foundry he co-founded in the late 1990s, ran on the same instinct: draw the type that does not exist yet. Query Pro extends that line. Three stylistic set levels calibrate the typeface for text, display, and identity contexts. Throughout, the voice lives in the proportion and in the small irregularities carried over from wood letters, which gives the family its balance of presence and clarity.

Michael Cina

 
Regular
Michael Cina’s work exists at the intersection of design, typography, branding, strategy, and art. This uncommon mix allows him to see differently and direct ideas with purpose. Decades of moving fluidly between disciplines have shaped an approach that blends instinct with strategy, intuition with clarity, and expression with systems thinking. An internationally recognized Creative Director and Artist, Michael leads the multi-disciplinary studio Cina Associates. His work spans global brands including Disney, Apple, American Express, ESPN, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. Across his career, he has synthesized typography, branding, illustration, motion, web, music, photography, and type design into cohesive systems that perform across platforms and cultures. His work has been widely published, recognized with Emmy and Grammy honors, and he is a frequent speaker at global design conferences, sharing a point of view rooted in authorship, clarity, and long-term brand thinking.
 
Regular
I started drawing typefaces in college because I had eight fonts on my work computer and none of them were what I wanted. Test Pilot Collective, the foundry I helped start in the late nineties, ran on the same idea: draw the type you want, especially the type that does not exist. I had been spending time with wood type catalogs, Domning's Quadra57, the Class L gothics from Hamilton, the Ludlow extra condensed, civil rights posters from 1968, the cover of the Beatles' Help LP. The mix is wide. What pulled me through it was a question about whether I could draw a face that held the spirit of wood type and worked the way a contemporary gothic works. I drew the black first. Once it settled, the rest of the family followed, nine styles total plus a variable. The character shifts across the weights on purpose, with the wood type personality most visible in the heavier cuts. That gives designers a way to use the family as a system, where the weights take on different roles in the same composition. Three stylistic set levels, organized by context: text, display, and identity. I wanted the sets to do real work. Each level shifts the typeface within the same underlying system. A colleague said Query Pro reminded them of a modern Trade Gothic. I had not aimed at that, but the comparison is fair. A working gothic that earns its place.
 
Regular
I started drawing typefaces in college because I had eight fonts on my work computer and none of them were what I wanted. Test Pilot Collective, the foundry I helped start in the late nineties, ran on the same idea: draw the type you want, especially the type that does not exist. I had been spending time with wood type catalogs, Domning's Quadra57, the Class L gothics from Hamilton, the Ludlow extra condensed, civil rights posters from 1968, the cover of the Beatles' Help LP. The mix is wide. What pulled me through it was a question about whether I could draw a face that held the spirit of wood type and worked the way a contemporary gothic works. I drew the black first. Once it settled, the rest of the family followed, nine styles total plus a variable. The character shifts across the weights on purpose, with the wood type personality most visible in the heavier cuts. That gives designers a way to use the family as a system, where the weights take on different roles in the same composition. Three stylistic set levels, organized by context: text, display, and identity. I wanted the sets to do real work. Each level shifts the typeface within the same underlying system. A colleague said Query Pro reminded them of a modern Trade Gothic. I had not aimed at that, but the comparison is fair. A working gothic that earns its place.

Michael Cina

2019-2023

Family

Query Pro

Designers

Michael Cina

Release

2019-2023

Family Size

9 Styles: Roman

Features

5 stylistic sets, super and subscript numbers, multiple figure styles, enclosed alphanumerics, symbols, arrows, and character alternates.

Character Set

Latin Extended. ~400 glyphs per weight. 297 languages.

Formats

OTF, WOFF2, Variable (based on license type)

Licensing

Desktop/Print, Web, Content, App/Game, Logo/Wordmark, Core Media, All Media. Custom License Available.

Supported Languages

Acheron, Achinese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Alekano, Algonquin, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri, Amis, Anaang, Andaandi, Anuta, Ao Naga, Aragonese, Arbëreshë Albanian, Arvanitika Albanian, Asháninka, Ashéninka Perené, Asu (Tanzania), Balinese, Banjar, Bari, Basque, Batak Dairi, Batak Karo, Batak Mandailing, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Bemba (Zambia), Bena (Tanzania), Bikol, Bislama, Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo, Bosnian, Breton, Buginese, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Caribbean Hindustani, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Aymara, Central Kurdish, Chachi, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chiga, Chiltepec Chinantec, Chokwe, Chuukese, Cimbrian, Cofán, Congo Swahili, Cook Islands Māori, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dehu, Eastern Arrernte, Eastern Oromo, English, Ese Ejja, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Garifuna, Ga’anda, German, Gheg Albanian, Gilbertese, Gooniyandi, Gourmanchéma, Guadeloupean Creole French, Gusii, Haitian, Hani, Hiligaynon, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Huastec, Hungarian, Hän, Icelandic, Ido, Iloko, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Interlingue, Irish, Istro Romanian, Italian, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Jamaican Creole English, Javanese, Jola-Fonyi, K'iche', Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kaonde, Karelian, Kashubian, Kekchí, Kenzi/Mattokki, Khasi, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kituba (DRC), Klingon, Kongo, Konzo, Kuanyama, Kven Finnish, Kölsch, Ladin, Ladino, Latgalian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luba-Lulua, Lule Sami, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Luxembourgish, Macedo-Romanian, Makhuwa, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Makwe, Malagasy, Malaysian, Maltese, Mandinka, Mankanya, Manx, Maore Comorian, Maori, Mapudungun, Marshallese, Matsés, Mauritian Creole, Meriam Mir, Meru, Minangkabau, Mohawk, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Mwani, Mískito, Naga Pidgin, Ndonga, Neapolitan, Ngazidja Comorian, Niuean, Nobiin, Nomatsiguenga, North Ndebele, Northern Kurdish, Northern Qiandong Miao, Northern Sami, Northern Uzbek, Northwestern Ojibwa, Norwegian, Novial, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Ojitlán Chinantec, Orma, Oroqen, Palauan, Paluan, Pampanga, Papantla Totonac, Papiamento, Pedi, Picard, Pichis Ashéninka, Piemontese, Pijin, Pintupi-Luritja, Pipil, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Purepecha, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Samoan, Sango, Sangu (Tanzania), Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Seri, Seselwa Creole French, Shambala, Shawnee, Shipibo-Conibo, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Soninke, South Ndebele, Southern Aymara, Southern Qiandong Miao, Southern Sami, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sranan Tongo, Standard Estonian, Standard Latvian, Standard Malay, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tahitian, Taita, Tedim Chin, Tetum, Tetun Dili, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tokelau, Toki Pona, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Tonga (Zambia), Tosk Albanian, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvalu, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Uab Meto, Ume Sami, Upper Guinea Crioulo, Upper Sorbian, Venetian, Veps, Volapük, Võro, Walloon, Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa, Waray (Philippines), Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, West Central Oromo, Western Abnaki, Western Frisian, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xhosa, Yanesha', Yao, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Yucateco, Zapotec, Zulu, Záparo