HairlineBuy
Amsterdam
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ExtraLightBuy
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LightBuy
Damascus
RegularBuy
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MediumBuy
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SemiBoldBuy
Guangzhou
BoldBuy
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BlackBuy
Istanbul
Irma Display In Use

Design Concept

Irma Display is a simple and elegant capital-only typeface based on geometric forms. The round characters of Irma Display, such as O, C and G, have no overshoots (the degree to which the highest and lowest points exceed the flat baseline to achieve the optical effect of being the same size), which allows the setting of text with no space between the lines, as all letters are equally tall.

Irma Display, Design Concept

Typographic patterns

Irma provides different conditional letterforms, depending on whether characters occur at the beginning, middle or end of the word. Letters can have four different forms (initial, medial, final and isolated). The choice of these forms is controlled by a powerful OpenType layout feature, which allows the creation of typographic patterns using the negative spaces of the letterforms. Use it to create instant logos, wordmarks and powerful headlines.

Irma Display, Typographic Patterns

Discretionary ligatures

Irma Display includes over 200 discretionary ligatures to make the setting of text even more compact and unique.

Irma Display, Discretionary ligatures

  • Released2009

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  • HE
    HE

    Discretionary ligatures

    dlig

    Irma includes dozens of discretionary ligatures which can save space and give your message a distinctive look. Discretionary ligatures are off by default in Adobe applications.
  • CT
    CT

    Standard ligatures

    liga

    Irma is a capital-only font, and the standard ligatures replace ST, CT to improve the flow of text.
  • AB
    AB

    Negative forms

    ss02

    This feature allows automatic highlighting of text when no other font style or colour is available, by inverting the text to negative forms.
  • SSS
    SSS

    Random negative forms

    ss01

    This stylistic text uses a pseaudo-random algorithm and mixes negative and postive forms of letters to create typographic patterns.
  • I
    I

    Capital `I` with serifs

    ss03

    This stylistic text will replace the standard capital ‘I’ with a slab-serif alternate.
  • Ü
    Ü

    Lowered diacritics

    ss05

    If you are setting text with no space between the lines, you can apply this stylistic set, which lowers some accents above the letters to eliminate space between the lines.
  • 3
    3

    Number 3 with flat top

    ss06

    This stylistic set replaces the standard round numberal 3 with a flat top variant