Typeface Design for Long-Form Text
A book serif thirteen years in the making
Magpie is a serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare, developed between 2008 and 2021. Built for long-form text setting such as books, it combines historical references with a warm, cursive-influenced flow. The family comprises four styles and covers Latin script across more than 860 languages.
Set in Magpie
Insights
- The family includes three alternate forms for lowercase q and additional alternates for R, V, and p, providing typographic flexibility within text settings.
- OpenType features span small caps, oldstyle and lining numerals, tabular and proportional figures, discretionary ligatures, fractions, superscript, and subscript.
- Latin script coverage extends to more than 860 languages.
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