Industry: Design

Typography for Cordale

Thirteen years in development

Cordale is a contemporary serif text typeface developed by Dalton Maag between 2008 and 2021, designed by Fabio Haag, Ron Carpenter, and Lukas Paltram. It comprises four styles and covers four writing systems—Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin—supporting over 930 languages. The family is positioned for editorial and long-form use in print and digital contexts.

Set in Cordale

Insights

Development spanned 2008–2021, a thirteen-year period.
Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin support within a single serif family gives it broad multilingual reach.
OpenType features include case-sensitive forms, fractions, ordinals, tabular and proportional numerals, subscript, and superscript.