Display Typeface for Layered Colour Effects
Six styles engineered for layering
Tephra is a display typeface designed by Hamish Muir, developed at Dalton Maag between 2008 and 2017. The family comprises six styles built for layering, allowing designers to combine them with varying colours or effects to produce composite letterforms. It supports Latin script across more than 860 languages.
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Insights
- The six styles carry numeric names—0, 12, 50, 100, 138, and 250—rather than conventional weight or style descriptors.
- The family extends Latin-script coverage to more than 860 languages.
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