Regular

Lava Variable

Latin

Миром в узком смысле (в отличие от Вселенной) называется планета Земля с антропоцентрической, человеческой точки зрения, как сообщество людей. Это название используется для описания человеческой истории и опыта, в то время как название «Земля» используется в физическом смысле и для отличия от других планет. Слово «мир», «мировой» противопоставляет глобальную (общечеловеческую) перспективу социальной, региональной и т. п. частной точке зрения; мировое сообщество. Употребляется для более узких сообществ, подчёркивая их сложность, самодостаточность и своеобразие; для культурных сообществ Pax Romana, китайский мир, в переносном смысле — мир моды, мир мебели, литературный мир, в мире животных. Вселенная — не имеющее строгого определения понятие в астрономии и философии. Оно делится на две принципиально отличающиеся сущности: умозрительную (философскую) и материальную, доступную наблюдениям в настоящее время или в обозримом будущем. Если автор различает эти сущности, то, следуя традиции, первую называют Вселенной, а вторую — астрономической Вселенной или Метагалактикой (в последнее время этот термин практически вышел из употребления). В историческом плане для обозначения «всего пространства» использовались различные слова, включая эквиваленты и варианты из различных языков, такие как «космос», «мир», «небесная сфера». Использовался также термин «макрокосмос», хотя он предназначен для определения систем большого масштаба, включая их подсистемы и части. Аналогично, слово «микрокосмос» используется для обозначения систем малого масштаба. Любое исследование или наблюдение, будь то наблюдение физика за тем, как раскалывается ядро атома, ребёнка за кошкой или астронома, ведущего наблюдения за отдалённой галактикой, — всё это наблюдение за Вселенной, вернее, за отдельными её частями. Эти части служат предметом изучения отдельных наук, а Вселенной в максимально больших масштабах, и даже Вселенной как единым целым занимаются астрономия и космология; при этом под Вселенной понимается или область мира, охваченная наблюдениями и космическими экспериментами, или объект космологических экстраполяций — физическая Вселенная как целое.

Lava was <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/articles/lava">originally designed for comfortable long-form reading</a> at 8 to 12 points, to bridge the digital and print editions of <em>Works That Work</em> magazine. The intention was to create a voice of a publication: confident enough not to need to show off, with the comfortable, relaxed manner of an engaged storyteller, ready to handle long stories, but also shine in larger titles. A single typeface for the entire publication. It’s extremely legible and harmonious at small sizes, sophisticated and elegant at large sizes.

Lava, Design concept

Design concept

Although Lava is a strictly contemporary typeface designed for digital environments, which avoids historicising, it has learned its lessons from the past to increase legibility — large counters and apertures, unambiguous letter shapes, generous vertical proportions, consistent spacing and kerning, designed for screen first, and performing well even in low resolution. In print, Lava delivers something that default UI fonts usually lack: refined details, clarity, finely tuned proportions and meticulous spacing, which let the reader forget about the typeface and pay attention to the text.

Lava font, designed for legibility

Designed for optimal legibility

Lava is part of Typotheque’s <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/global">Global Font collection</a> supporting hundreds of languages and various writing scripts. In the long term, Lava intends to support all living languages with a community of active speakers. Currently, Lava supports the following writing scripts: Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Canadian Syllabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), Kannada, Korean, Latin, Malayalam, Odia, Ol Chiki, Tamil, Telugu, and Thai. We are working on extending the language to other writing scripts, including Chinese. This makes Lava an unprecedented design project.

Lava, Global font

A truly global font

Dealing with various unrelated writing scripts, while aiming for cultural authenticity and maintaining the design principles of the typeface is extremely challenging. Each writing tradition requires a rethinking of the horizontal and vertical proportions of the typeface, and stroke weight distribution. Additionally, each writing script has a different text density, so the basic stroke weight needs to be modified in order to achieve a balanced overall text image. We need to research the cultural traditions and conventions, and influences of technology, to render diverse languages correctly, with respect, and at the highest aesthetic and technological levels.

Lava, Proportions & Conventions

Proportions and conventions

Lava is also available in a variable font format with automatic size-specific tracking, where the shapes of letters do not change, but their spacing and kerning are size specific, triggered by the user’s size selection. Essentially, we spaced and kerned every font in the family three times, for a small size of about 6 points, a default size of 10 points, and a large size of 48 points, at the intended viewing distance of 40 cm. The increased horizontal spacing is beneficial for reading acuity and significantly improves reading performance. <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/articles/size-specific_spacing_of_fonts">Read an essay</a> about the background to the year-long research we carried out into optical spacing.

Lava, Size-specific font spacing

Size-specific font spacing

Each weight of Lava includes nine different kinds of numerals. Default numerals are proportional old-style (ranging) numerals, for use in running text. Lava also includes lining figures for use with capitals letters, because their proportions match the height of caps. Small caps figures for use in all small caps setting, tabular (both lining and old-style figures), superior and inferior figures, and finally circled and circled inverted figures. When you take a licence for this font, you can choose the default numeral variants inside the fonts.

Lava typeface, numeral styles

Numeral styles

Lava also supports the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), featuring a comprehensive repertoire of glyphs for the transcription of linguistic data. The font also covers First Nations roman orthographies of Indigenous languages spoken in Canada (Wakashan, Algonquian, Salishan, Tsimshianic, Iroquoian and Eskaleut languages), and, additionally, it covers African Indigenous roman orthographies for languages such as Hausa, Ɗuwai, Igbo, Akan, Kabiye, Ewe, etc. The IPA support is embedded inside the Latin fonts and every other language version, so you don’t need to take a separate licence for it.

Lava font, International Phonetic Alphabet

Phonetic script

Lava Math is a separate font that is delivered with the complete package of Lava, and contains symbols for mathematical notation. This is a single weight font file, but it includes also the Math Italics, Math Bold, Math Bold Italics for Latin and Greek letters required for mathematics. The font includes math symbols and operators, horizontal and vertical delimiters, math diacritics, and extendable arrows. Lava Math is making use of OpenType MATH table, currently, there isn’t unified support of this table, and we tested the fonts with the Movemen MathTools 6 plugin for InDesign, Microsoft Office and web browsers. Lava Math covers all common math equations, but it is not a general purpose math font for traditional LaTeX setting.

Lava font, math notation

A font for mathematical typesetting

Heavy

Cyrillic

Abaza

Adyghe

Altai

Avar

Azeri (Cyrillic)

Azeri (Latin)

Balkar

Bashkir

Belarusian

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Buryat

Chechen

Chuvash

Crimean Tatar

Dargin

Dungan

Evenki

Gagauz

Ingush

Kabardian

Kalmyk

Karakalpak

Kazakh

Khakas

Kirghyz

Komi

Koryak

Kumyk

Lezgian

Macedonian

Manci

Mansi

Mari

Mongolian

Montenegrin

Mordvin (Erzya)

Mordvin (Moksha)

Muslim Tat, Latin

Nanai

Nenets

Nogai

Ossetic

Romanian

Russian

Rusyn 

Selkup

Serbian

Shor

Tabasaran

Tajik (Cyrillic)

Talysh, Latin

Tatar

Tsakhur

Turkmen

Tuva

Tuvan

Udmurt

Uighur

Ukrainian

Uzbek

Western Mari

Yakut

Devanagari

Awadhi

Bhojpuri

Bodo

Dogri

Dotyali

Eastern Tamang

Goan Konkani

Hindi

Kangri

Konkani

Magahi

Maithili

Marathi

Nepali

Sindhi

Georgian

Greek

Greek (classical)

Greek (modern)

Kannada

Abidji

Abron

Abua

Achinese

Achuar-Shiwiar

Acoli

Adangme

Adara

Adele

Adioukrou

Afar

Afrikaans

Agatu

Aghem

Ahanta

Ahtna

Akan

Akoose

Alago

Albanian

Alekano

Aleut

Anaang

Anufo

Anyin

Ao Naga

Arabic, Chadian Spoken

Aragonese

Aromanian

Ashe

Asturian

Awak

Awing

Aymara

Baatonum

Bafia

Baga Sitemu

Baka

Balinese

Banda, West Central

Bandi

Bangwinji

Baoulé

Bapuku

Basa

Basque

Batak Toba

Bedawiyet

Bekwarra

Bemba

Bena

Bench

Beng

Benga

Berom

Bete-Bendi

Bété, Daloa

Bété, Guiberoua

Bhele

Bikol

Bilen

Bimoba

Bini

Birifor, Southern

Bisã

Bislama

Blackfoot

Bokobaru

Breton

Buginese

Bulu

C’Lela

Cahungwarya

Carib

Catalan

Cebuano

Central Atlas Tamazight

Central Yupik

Cerma

Chamorro

Cheyenne

Chichewa

Chickasaw

Chiduruma

Chiga

Chimborazo Highland Quichua

Chipewyan

Lava was designed for magazine use, but far transcends its original application. It handles large quantities of text with ease; it is extremely legible and harmonious at small sizes, yet also sophisticated and elegant at large ones.

Lava

Lava

Irma Boom thesis

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