Designers: Patrick
Griffin,
Hans
van MaanenLeo is an economic magazine and book deal with indicated for usage in sizes suitable for immersive reading, with different cuts enhanced for different body copy size ranges, like footnotes and legal text. Developed with the explicit intent of communicating details without calling attention to itself, this typeface puts itself directly on the "function" side of the everlasting debate about kind versus material.
The roman Leo font styles were constructed with as little ornamentation as possible, with wedge serifs, a high x-height and a skeleton somehwat rooted in the designers' reflections on the modern-day, post-war Dutch archetype. Rather than follow standard models with completely different kinds, contracted widths and high slants, the Leo italics provide naturally subtle emphasis in reading by carefully relating to the forms, stance and rhythm of their roman counterparts.
The 12 Leo fonts include over 700 glyphs each, and include assistance for the huge bulk of Latin languages. Consisted of OpenType features are built-in small caps, lining and oldstyle figures in both proportional and tabular sets, superiors, numerators, denominators inferiors, ordinals, automated fractions, ligatures, and optional long descenders for optimal counterspace management in book and publication text layout.
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