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A decade-long serif rooted in typewriter italics

Plume is a flowing serif typeface designed by Bruno Maag at Dalton Maag, developed between 2007 and 2017. Its starting point was the elegance of early italic typewriter fonts, translated into a contemporary serif. The family includes Regular and Bold weights and supports over 860 Latin-script languages.

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Design and development spanned a full decade, from 2007 to 2017.
The typeface covers more than 860 Latin-script languages, indicating extensive character engineering.
OpenType features include fractions, ordinals, proportional and tabular numerals, superscript, subscript, and all-caps support.

Date: Fri, Nov 13

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