Parmigiano Headline
Parmigiano Headline is the largest cut of the most extensive family of fonts ever to have been inspired by Giambattista Bodoni. Delicate and confident, it is perfect for use at big type sizes, a great choice for advertisement and magazine titles.
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- LightItalic
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- LightItalic
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- BoldItalic
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Design Concept
The Parmigiano Typographic System (named after Parma, the city where Bodoni established his printing house) has the stated ambition to be the most extensive family of fonts ever to have been inspired by Giambattista Bodoni. Of all the other styles of the family Parmigiano Headline is the closest to Bodoni’s original designs, a self-confident cut, having the most contrast between the thick and thin strokes. It also features smaller bowls as well as delicate and subtly refined shapes. Its generous ascenders add elegance, and its narrow proportions balanced by round letterforms make it a space-saver. Parmigiano Headline was specifically conceived for setting titles and headlines, and recommended for sizes larger than 18 points. Read more about the development of Parmigiano ▸
Optical Sizes
The idea most designers have of Giambattista Bodoni’s work is based on high-contrast display typefaces. The Parmigiano family, however, also features different cuts for use in specific point size ranges, an idea rooted in the history of typography and typical for Bodoni’s era. Typical adjustments for fonts to be used at smaller sizes include enlarged counters, shortened ascenders and descenders, thickened serifs, decreased contrast and wider letterspacing, making Parmigiano work optimally across all text sizes.
Numeral Styles
Each weight of Parmigiano Headline includes eight different kinds of numerals. Proportional old-style figures come as default figures in Parmigiano. It also, however, includes lining figures, tabular numerals (both lining and old-style), superior, and inferior numerals. For running text, old-style figures work best; for use in capital setting, use lining figures. When you take a licence for this font, you can choose your own default numeral variant.
- DesignRuben Tarumian (Armenian)Ilya Ruderman (Cyrillic)Irina Smirnova (Cyrillic)Akaki Razmadze (Georgian)Eirini Vlachou (Greek)Yanek Iontef (Hebrew)Riccardo Olocco (Latin)Jonathan Pierini (Latin)
- ContributorsIgino Marini (Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Latin)
- EngineeringRoberto Arista (Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Latin)
- Released2014
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Small Caps
smcp
Most Typotheque fonts implement the Small Caps feature. In Adobe applications you can replace lower case letters with small caps using the keyboard shortcut (⌘ + ⇧ + H), or the OpenType menu. - HaHa
All Small Capitals
smcp, c2sc
There are two methods of applying small capitals. The first one replaces only lower case letters with small caps. The second method, All Small Caps, also replaces capital letters with small caps. It also replaces regular quotation marks, exclamation points, question marks, slashes and usually also numerals with small caps variants. - (H:(H:
Case Sensitive Forms
case
When the ‘change to caps’ function is applied from within an application (not when text is typed in caps) appropriate case-sensitive forms are automatically applied. Regular brackets, parenthesis, dashes and hyphens are replaced with their capital forms. - (1)(1)
Circled numerals and arrows
dlig
The discretionary ligature feature creates real arrows when you type the combination -> (right arrow), <- (left arrow), -^ (up arrow) or ^- (down arrow). It also creates enclosed numerals when you type numerals inside parenthesis, and inverse enclosed numerals when you type numerals inside brackets. Discretionary ligatures are off by default in Adobe applications. - fifi
Standard Ligatures
liga
Standard ligatures are those which are designed to improve the readability of certain letter pairs. For example, when this feature is activated, typing ‘f’ and ‘i’ will automatically produce the ‘fi’ ligature. Using ligatures does not affect the spelling and hyphenation of your text in any way. - 1919
Proportional Old-style Figures
onum, pnum
Typotheque fonts contain various styles of numerals within one font. Proportional Lining Figures come standard in all our headline and newspaper fonts. Their proportions are specifically designed to work well with capital letters (for example, in headlines). The proportional Old-style Figures feature changes standard figures to Old-style Figures which work well in running text, as they have the same proportions as lower case letters with their ascenders and descenders. - 1919
Tabular Lining Figures
lnum, tnum
Tabular figures are for use in tables where numerals need to be aligned vertically. Tabular figures are available as a OpenType feature and have a fixed width in all weights. Typotheque fonts include both Lining and Old-style Tabular figures. - 1919
Tabular Old-style Figures
onum, tnum
Tabular figures are for use in tables where numerals need to be aligned vertically. Tabular figures are available as a OpenType feature and have a fixed width in all weights. Typotheque fonts include both Lining and Old-style Tabular figures. - 1:01:0
Vertically centered colon
calt
This stylistic set centers the colon. Same behaviour can be triggered by the Contextual Alternative feature, which is automatically applied when colon is followed by a lining numeral or a capital letter. - 2/92/9
Arbitrary Fractions
frac
Typotheque OpenType fonts already include a number of pre-designed diagonal fractions. The fraction feature allows you to create other fractions quickly and easily. - H1H1
Superiors
sups
Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their superior alternates, which can be used for footnotes, formulas, etc. Superior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text. - H1H1
Inferiors
sinf
Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their inferior alternates, used primarily for mathematical or chemical notation. Inferior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text - жж
Bulgarian Cyrillic
Bulgarian readers prefer to set text in a variation of Cyrillic that differs from the standard Cyrillic by using shapes of letters based on cursive handwriting, where letters are easier to tell apart. Typotheque fonts use standard Cyrillic forms as default, and Bulgarian Cyrillic is applied when the text is tagged as Bulgarian. When the Localised forms feature is not available, you can also apply the same forms by using a Stylistic Set. - пп
Serbian & Macedonian Cyrillic
Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic has different preferred shapes for some italic letters, which differ from the standard Cyrillic. Typotheque fonts use standard Cyrillic forms as default, and Serbian Cyrillic italic is applied when the text is tagged as Serbian Or Macedonian. When the Localised forms feature is not available, you can also apply the same forms by using a Stylistic Set. - აა
Georgian Capital Letters
case
Georgian alphabet is unicameral, and to convert the lower case letters (Mkhedruli) the capital letters (Mtavruli), you can apply the Case feature. - մե մէ մի մխ մկմե մէ մի մխ մկ
Armenian ligatures
liga
Armenian letters often have assymetric protruding shapes that may cause spacing issues in text. Ligatures can be used to address the spacing of these letter combinations. - dd
Printed d
ss01
The standard lower-case d in Parmigiano has cursive form. This stylistic set replaces it by a printed form. - H7H7
Higher numbers and currencies
ss02
The standard set of numerals and currencies are lower than the capitals, optimised for continuous text use. This stylistic set replaces them by the variants matching the height of capitals. - հհ
Alternative Armenian հ
ss08
Parmigiano includes two versions of the Armenian lower-case հ. The traditional version comes as a default, and modern variant can be activated by this stylistic set. - ბბ
Cursive Georgian
ss09
Parmigiano includes two versions of the Armenian lower-case հ. The traditional version comes as a default, and modern variant can be activated by this stylistic set. - לעלע
Short Hebrew ‘lamed’ and ‘ayin’
ss10
Vertically compressed Hebrew letters lamed (ל) and ayin (ע) for more dense line-height and more space for Hebrew cantillation. - אא
Wide Hebrew letters
jalt
This feature is intended to improve line justification by selecting wider Hebrew glyphs. - ב1ב1
Lower numbers for Hebrew text
Different height of the Hebrew letters requires a different height of the numerals too. When the text is language tegged, the correct height of numbers will be selected.