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Stone carving translated into a variable axis

Highgate is a contemporary incised typeface designed by Pablo Gámez and Elena Peralta at Dalton Maag, developed between 2020 and 2024. Its forms draw on British stone-carving traditions and feature open shapes and varied proportions. The family supports Latin script across more than 800 languages and includes Weight and Italic variable axes alongside a Chisel axis. It received a Communication Arts Award of Excellence.

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The Chisel axis is a named variable axis beyond the standard Weight and Italic axes, cited by the source as offering extra expression alongside the incised stone-carving inspiration.
Broad multilingual coverage—over 800 Latin-script languages—indicates an extensive glyph engineering effort beyond typical retail releases.

Date: Fri, Nov 13

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