Meet Cilly Mantis: The Playful Serif That Bites Back

At first glance, Cilly Mantis looks like a friendly, bookish serif. But look closer. The letterforms feature unexpected, insect-like curves—slender joints, sudden angles, and delicate terminals that echo a mantis’s raptorial legs.

Cilly Mantis isn't a font for corporate reports or boring safety manuals. It’s a font for designers who want to inject a little life —specifically, arthropod life—into their layouts.

It’s sharp, it’s friendly, and just when you think you have it figured out, it turns its head and looks at you from a completely new angle.

Part elegant, part mischievous, and wholly unique, Cilly Mantis is the typeface you didn’t know you needed—until now. With a name that plays on the praying mantis, this font balances sharp precision with a sense of curious, wide-eyed wonder.