Piper Blackall

Holden is a typeface family designed in 2018 for Zetafonts by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini with Andrea Tartarelli as a research in texture and extreme weight range.

Its curvy shapes, inspired by pointed brush aesthetics, are developed in six different weights, from the lightly contrasted thin to the fluid and rhythmic fat. The lightest weights are mostly designed for text usage, while the heavier weights work better at display sizes, where the extreme shapes and tight counter-spaces are better appreciated.

Holden aims to fill the space between display and text typeface, with a range of variants that allows maximum expression in display use and great legibility in long texts, on the web and at small size. It’s designed for editorial or packaging use where a contrasting range of weights and variants is required to fight monotony while keeping branding consistent.

All Holden fonts include full open type features with stylistic alternates, small caps, discretionary ligatures, positional number forms, swash forms (in italics) and full language coverage for +70 languages using latin alphabet.

An array of extra decorative dingbats are included to complement your design with pointing manicules and fleurons (also called “horticultural dingbats” by Robert Bringhurst in The Elements of Typographic Style).

Ballinger began life as a single-weight proprietary typeface called baasic, designed for Dublin-based design office aad. baasic was intended as a plain, hardworking grotesque: a simple tool for clear communication. We’ve developed it into a fully-featured eight-weight family with matching italics. Sources include early 20th century jobbing sanses like Morris Benton’s News Gothic and Candia, a 70s-era typewriter face Josef Müller-Brockmann designed for Olivetti, which had unusually deep junctures that added energy to letters like m and n.

The family takes its name from Raymond A. Ballinger, the great mid-century American designer, author of ‘Lettering Art in Modern Use,’ and champion of elegance and readability. Ballinger has large counters and a generous x-height. Letters like a, e, and s open out gradually as they move from Thin to Black to maintain ample apertures, even in the darkest weights. Semi-oldstyle figures are available, as well as case-sensitive punctuation and delimiters. Italics incorporate subtle ogee curves to lend warmth and energy to the page or screen.

Aila is a surprising slab serif built on the structure of a realistic Roman, but with unique organic features that make this typeface an exercise in tension between structure and rhythm. This expressive tension is displayed in heavier styles (Aila Bold and Aila Black), and is strongly evident in the italic forms. Aila’s italics offer an interesting re-interpretation of the cursive ductus of classic italic forms, to offer rhythmic and swift variants, which are the ideal counterpoint to the regular set in body text.
Each style of the Aila family offers an extended character set specially designed for editorial design projects.

Introducing Lento monoline script with happy end! 5 styles are included:
regular, double, rough, display and bold.

- Basic latin
- Extended latin
- Ligatures
- Alternative symbols
- Initial and Final symbols

Enjoy Lento!

BR Firma is a geometric sans serif consisting of 8 weights ranging from Thin to Black with matching italics. It supports an ‘Extended Latin’ character set that covers over 200 latin based languages.

BR Firma provides advanced typographic support with features such as case sensitive forms, fractions and slashed zeros. It comes with multiple figure sets and is ideal for print, advertising, publishing, branding, software and gaming as well as being optimised for web and screen design.