Samsung Galaxy / Font / ITC KLEPTO PRO REGULAR
REVIEW
ITC Klepto Pro is a display face wearing a system-font hat.
Bo Berndal's quirky ITC display design ships as a Samsung Flipfont, which is a strange place to put a typeface built for posters. The result is more curio than utility.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 4 MIN READ
ITC Klepto Pro Regular
MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.
OUR SCORE
6.7
SAMSUNG GALAXY
★ 5.0
PRICE
Paid
A FlipFont is a delivery channel, not really an app, and the interesting question with any Monotype release on the Galaxy Store is whether the typeface inside the apk earns the system-wide commitment the format demands. ITC Klepto Pro Regular is a recognisable name from the ITC library — Bo Berndal’s late-period display design, with the kind of hand-drawn irregularity that ITC commissioned a lot of in the 1990s. Seeing it shipped as a Samsung system font is genuinely unusual.
It is also a category error. Klepto was drawn to shout from a poster, not to whisper across a settings screen, and the FlipFont format insists on the second job. Once you toggle it on, every menu, every contact name, every Calendar entry takes on the slightly performative personality of a display face doing the work of a text face. The drawing is good. The deployment is wrong.
That is the honest review of nearly every display-face FlipFont, and Klepto inherits the problem. The pedigree is real, the licensing is clean, the activation works. The use case is the part Monotype and Samsung have never quite solved together.
ITC Klepto was drawn to shout from a poster, not to whisper across a settings screen, and the Flipfont format insists on the second job.
FEATURES
ITC Klepto Pro Regular is a Latin display typeface from the International Typeface Corporation library, drawn by Bo Berndal and now distributed by Monotype since the ITC acquisition. It has the marks of a late-1990s ITC commission — slightly irregular baselines, soft terminals, a stretched x-height, capitals that look hand-cut rather than ruled. The Pro designation extends the character set beyond the original release; the FlipFont edition ships the Regular weight only.
The install behaves like every other Monotype FlipFont on the Galaxy Store. It registers a system typeface that Settings → Display → Font size and style can swap in, and from there it propagates to the launcher, dialer, Messages, Calendar, and the Samsung first-party app surfaces that respect One UI's font picker. There is no preview screen, no per-app override, no companion bold or italic in this SKU.
The app itself is a delivery shim — an apk wrapping a font file and a licence assertion. That is the FlipFont category's entire design, and Klepto fits the template without comment.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Klepto is a properly licensed ITC release, not a recut clone, and on a phone shelf full of look-alike script and display faces that distinction matters. The drawing is recognisable as Berndal's — there is character in the lowercase g, the ear of the f, the slightly rolled terminals on the s and c. Run it through a screenshot, blow it up, and you can see why ITC commissioned it in the first place.
Activation is also clean. Toggle it on, the system swaps without a reboot; toggle it off, you get One UI Sans back without artefacts in the notification shade or the launcher. For a paid font delivered through a format Samsung has barely touched in years, that reliability is the floor and Klepto clears it.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The problem is the use case. Klepto is a display face — drawn for headlines, packaging, short bursts of branding — and a phone's system typeface is exactly the opposite job. Set it as your UI font and you spend the day reading menus, contact lists, and Calendar entries in a typeface designed to be glanced at on a poster, not skimmed at body sizes. Counters tighten, the personality that reads as charming at 72pt reads as fussy at 14pt, and the eye fatigues faster than it does on a workhorse text face.
The FlipFont wrapper compounds it. There is no way to apply Klepto only to the home-screen labels or only to Messages headers, which is where a display face would actually belong. You commit system-wide or not at all, and most third-party apps that ship their own type stacks — Chrome, Gmail, anything Material — ignore the choice anyway. So you are paying for a poster typeface to live inside Settings.
CONCLUSION
Worth a look for ITC catalogue collectors and Galaxy owners who want a conversation-starter on their lock screen rather than a font to read all day. Skip it if your phone is mostly a reading device — Klepto is the wrong tool for the job, however well drawn. The real fix is on Samsung's side: a FlipFont format that scoped display faces to launcher and lock-screen surfaces would turn typefaces like this from curios into genuinely useful purchases.