Fedra Serif

Instead of seeking inspiration only in the past, Fedra Serif is a synthetic typeface where aesthetic and technological decisions are linked. Fedra combines seemingly contradictory ways of constructing characters into one harmonious font. Its humanistic roots (the rhythm of the handwriting) is balanced with rational drawing (a coarse computer-screen grid). Fedra Serif has a large x-height, open counters, and simplified stroke terminations that render predictably in small sizes even in low-resolution display.

What makes text easy to read is not just well-designed letters, but also balanced horizontal and vertical dimensions of the text. Fedra Serif is designed for continuous reading, where it is critical that the counter-shapes relate inextricably to the outside of the letters. Typefaces for easy reading feature rhythmic stem intervals and optically interrelated space between letters, which create a harmonious rhythm of the text, aiding the reading process and offering optimal legibility. Additionally, Fedra Serif has unusual vertical stems, which get thicker towards the baseline, giving the typeface stability – a comfortable weight to read even in the smallest of sizes.

Each weight of Fedra Serif includes nine different kinds of numerals. Proportional old-style figures come as default figures in Fedra Serif. It also, however, includes lining figures, tabular numerals (both lining and old-style), small caps numerals, superior, inferior, circled and circled inverted numerals. For the running text, old-style figures work best; for capital setting, use lining figures; and with small caps, choose the specially designed Small Caps numerals applicable via OpenType layout features. When you take a licence of this font, you can choose the default numeral variants inside the fonts.

Fedra Serif is part of the Typotheque Multiscript font collection, supporting at least nine different writing scripts, and over four billion people worldwide. Typotheque Multiscript are fonts that cover Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Thai.

Commissioned by HarperCollins publisher for their Collins dictionaries, we designed special fonts that allow for the transcription of linguistic data using the International Phonetic Alphabet. This is a specific glyph-set for the needs of the Collins dictionary, and not a generic IPA font, so please consult the character set to see if it fits your use case, before purchasing the font.