Lisbeth Display
1 style
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Louisa Fröhlich’s Lisbeth is the charming all-italic trailblazer that
handles branding and text with internal vividness. With no roman
style, it’s an italic-only family whose creation was guided by
imagination instead of restrictive writing tools. Some type families
aren’t sure what they want. Lisbeth proceeds with the utmost
confidence on its own terms — it’s a feisty three-dimensional
thespian amidst a cast of strait-laced characters you’re used to.
With branding and magazine usage in mind, Lisbeth addresses
the distinct challenges of text and display in a characterful way.
The curves of the text weights show a soft angularity, emphasising
the handwritten quality and the subtle twist inside the letters. The
stroke’s carefully balanced contrast is more pronounced in the
vibrant heavier weights but almost absent in the graceful structure
of the thin weight. The angle of the letters is almost upright and
the x-height is relatively large, so even longer texts can be read
comfortably and without effort. Lisbeth is slightly condensed and
can efficiently impart much information in a smaller area. So if a
type design can be thought of as the clothing letters wear, then
Lisbeth is an energetic, freely flowing stroke wrapped around
practical and efficient letter proportions.
Another highlight of the family is the quirky high-contrast
display style, easily catching every eye. The design concept of the
twisted stroke shows at the extreme here and makes the letters
dance a little on the page. Even though the shapes behave wildly,
every letter is carefully balanced in itself so that the rhythmic
repetition of the lettershapes results in an even and harmonic total
picture.
Lisbeth’s five text weights (from thin to bold) perform excellently
in text settings, and its funky display style amps up the shimmering
aspect of each glyph. It supports numerous languages (Latin-A
extended) and comes with nice ligatures and some contextual
alternates to produce beautiful typography. The character set
contains proportional lining and oldstyle figures, tabular figures,
subscripts, superscripts, and fractions. The complete Lisbeth
family, along with our entire catalogue, has been optimised for
today’s varied screen uses.
Foundry | TypeTogether |
Designers | Louisa Fröhlich |
More Info | type-together.com |