The Cyrillic was designed with the help of a Bulgarian type designer Krassen Krestev.īreve on the Й looks a bit too small, lacking both weight and contrast. The typeface is available in variable format with weight and optical size axes.Ĭyrillic Piazzolla is fitted with a proper-quality Cyrillic with well-chosen constructions - they comply with the Latin part in terms of personality. Styles 9 weights from Thin to Black with corresponding italics:Įach weight has a range of optical sizes: from 8 to 28 points. Piazolla supports the majority of languages using Latin script and Greek, and its Cyrillic is even fitted with superior and inferior letters (often used, for example, in scientific papers, ordinal numerals and footnotes) - you don’t often get that in a free font. proportional and tabular Roman figures are introduced in a stylistic numeric set it also has ready-cut fractions, sets of super- and subscripts, numerators and denominators, currency signs, math and service characters. Both variants of figures can be proportional (for texts) and tabular (monowidth, for use in tables)įour variants of figures in Piazzolla, top row are tabular, bottom row, proportional: The figures of the height of lowercase glyphs, with ascenders and descenders, are called old-style, or lowercase - those were the figures in ancient typefaces from which dynamic serifs actually inherit. In modern typefaces, figures are typically as tall as uppercase letters and stand on the baseline, which is why we call them lining, uppercase, or caps figures.
The typeface is equipped with small caps, old-style and uppercase figures The typeface is compact, with large x-height - it would be efficient and effective in small sizes, but thanks to its bright personality can also work as a display typeface.
Hands-on Piazzolla has a modern approach to proportions - widths of straight and oval glyphs are close to each other. Expressive graphics with angulous calligraphic stroke joints - with a certain allusion to Medieval writings, Piazolla looks sharp and fresh. The typeface was named after an Argentinian musician Astor Piazolla, the revolutionizer of tango. The old-style serifs are marked by open apertures, diagonal stress, low contrast, and significantly varied glyph widths. Historically, this category includes serifs dating back to Renaissance and Baroque as well as their modern revivals. Those are serif typefaces, forms of which are influenced by broad nib writing. Any bug can be turned into a feature in the hands of a daring, confident typographer, - only before taking risks, you should figure out what this bug actually is. Plus, you always have to remember that there is no such thing as forbidden means and tools in design.
Our critique and our advice do not have a monopoly on the truth - that’s just an expert review by three professionals sharing the same values. Sadly, browsing Cyrillic fonts is still like walking in a minefield but there is also some good news.
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