Font Riot Carmine Red Athletic Long Shorts

Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Font Riot.

Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Font Riot Carmine Red Athletic Long Shorts.

There are no rules here. No kerning, no leading, no typographic order whatsoever. What there is, is letterforms — glorious, overlapping, tumbling characters and glyphs in every colour imaginable — cascading down the right side of these shorts like every font ever made decided to have a party and nobody thought to call security.

Melbourne artist Bert Ernie built this composition from pure typographic form — letters, numbers, punctuation and symbols layered into something that feels like it’s moving even when it’s standing still. Then he put it on carmine red.

Carmine red is not a shy colour. It’s the red that stops traffic, commands attention, and makes everything around it work harder. Against it the blues go cooler, the purples deepen, the greens practically vibrate. The whole composition hums with an energy that only carmine red can ignite.

If you’ve been searching for athletic shorts that are actually worth talking about, you’ve found them. These aren’t just shorts for the gym — they’re shorts that make the gym look at you.

The design runs down the right side of the shorts, front and back panels meeting at the seam to create a mirrored effect — a typographic totem pole of pure joyful chaos that’s genuinely unlike anything you’ll find at the shops. Because this isn’t a print from a catalogue. It’s wearable art.

Wear them to the gym and watch people pretend not to stare. Wear them to the beach and own every square metre of sand around you. Font Riot doesn’t do subtle. It does spectacular. And it does it in carmine red.