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Caliste is a type family coming in a solid text version and a contrasted display version.
Each of these versions exist in 6 weights and their italics. Callisto was a Greek nymph, follower of the hunting goddess Artemis. She ended up being transformed into a bear, and she is now up in our sky, shaped as the constellation of Ursa major (= the Big bear, la Grande ourse!). The Caliste family includes many cool things listed below.
First of all, I am very proud to release my first font including the complete glyphset for Vietnamese language. Here is the collection of all the ‘a’s contained in each weight of Caliste.
Another useful thing is two sets of alternate swashy capitals in the italic. Very fun to play with! Works great for magazine titles of course, or to spice up a logo.
The italic contains also automatic alternate letters to prevent collusion of the loops. You won’t even notice that this is happening but it will make your text smoother, for example:
You can choose also between two shapes of ‘k’:
And choose to activate some extra ligatures : two historical ones, ct and st, with their round loop, and Th because this combination of letters is frequent in English and why not adding some extra loops again!
My intention when I started this design was to mix some Caslon vibes with the latin letters contained in Japanese fonts, hence the very short descenders, allowing narrow line-spacing. It all started with the drawing of a beautiful iconic ‘c’.
As always, my work process involves many drawings.
Once the concept and the first weight was made, it took me another 185 hours of work to develop the whole family (yes, I timed it, because that is one of the most frequent questions I get, « how long does it take to make a font»?) I worked entirely alone, I love developping my fonts myself instead of delegating this tadious task, it allows me to know exactly what is in the font. What was supposed to be a small family of 4 styles only ended up being a warm and loving big family of 24 styles. And I could not be more happy about that!
If the type tester is not enough for your trials, you can contact me and I can provide a trial version with a limited glyphset (basic lowercase and basic capitals) and no OpenType features.
Please remember that this type foundry can continue providing new designs only if you buy fonts once in a while :)
CHOOSE A TYPE OF LICENCE :
Desktop
Webfont
App
CHOOSE THE FONT STYLES :
Caliste Collection
Caliste Display Family
Light
Light italic
Semilight
Semilight italic
Regular
Regular italic
Medium
Medium italic
Bold
Bold italic
Black
Black italic
Caliste Text Family
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS :
For details about the three kinds of licensing, please check the help section. If you have special licensing needs (merchandising, broadcasting, etc.) that are not listed here, please send us an email at emilie.rigaud[@]gmail.com
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