Typeface Design for Lexia
17-year typeface development across four writing systems
Lexia is a contemporary humanist slab-serif typeface developed at Dalton Maag between 2007 and 2024 by a five-person team. It covers four writing systems—Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin—supporting over 860 languages. Weight and Italic variable axes enable the family to become punchier and higher-impact as weight increases.
Set in Lexia, Lexia Mono
Insights
- Weight and Italic variable axes are the structural mechanism enabling tonal range within a single family.
- The five-person design team reflects the multilingual scope of the project.
- Lexia pairs with a companion monospaced family, Lexia Mono.
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