Bely Display
1 style
TypeTogether
TypeTogether
Bely is the first design by French newcomer Roxane Gataud. Too
many typefaces are either governed by fear and never accomplish
what they could, or are unrestrained which results in their frenetic
dangling like a leaf caught in a spider’s web. Bely’s strength is that
it has both restraint and freedom throughout the text weights and
into the unique display weight. There is no fear in this type family,
but only great respect for both the tradition of reading and the
opportunity to make an impression.
Bely is a high-class throwback containing four text weights
which were built upon classical proportions to capitalise on reading
familiarity. Bely Text features balanced capitals and a play
between large, triangular serifs at the top and thick, bracketed,
rectangular serifs at the bottom. The family is capped by a radical,
expressive French-style display weight which pushes the rules of
the text weights to their logical extreme. Bely Display, truly daring
with its monstrous and angled contrast, exploits the features
which make an impression at larger sizes. In the end, Bely Display
is adventurous when used in packaging, identities, and headlines
with attitude, while Bely Text’s calm baseline and piercing ascenders
give paragraphs texture and familiarity.
Bely covers the Latin A Extended glyph set and brings its sense
of confidence to your projects with its two text weights, matching
italics, and unique display style. Bely’s satisfying OpenType features
allow for the implementation of typographic niceties such as small
caps, both tabular and proportional lining and oldstyle figures,
ligatures, alternate characters, case-sensitive variants, and fractions.
The complete Bely family, along with our entire catalogue,
has been optimised for today’s varied screen uses.
awards
– Selected for TypeTogether’s Typeface Publishing Incentive
Programme scholarship in 2014.
– Selected by French magazine Étapes for the 2014 Diploma Issue.
– Selected for the 2014 exhibition ‘TransFormations’,
at Centre Pompidou.
Foundry | TypeTogether |
Designers | Roxane Gataud |
More Info | type-together.com |