The Cyclop typeface was designed in the 1920s at the workshop of Warsaw type foundry Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka. This sans serif typeface has a highly modulated stroke so it has high typographic contrast. The vertical stems are much heavier then horizontal ones. Most characters have thin rectangles as additional counters giving the unique shape of the characters. The lead types of Cyclop typeface were produced in slanted variant at sizes 8-48 pt. It was heavily used for heads in newspapers and accidents prints. Typesetters used Cyclop in the inter-war period, during the occupation in the underground press. The typeface was used until the beginnings of the offset print and computer typesetting era. Nowadays it is hard to find the metal types of this typeface.

The fonts are distributed in the Type1 and OpenType formats along with the files necessary for use these fonts in TeX and LaTeX including encoding definition files: T1 (ec), T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texnansi and nonstandard ones (IL2 for Czech fonts).