Typeface Design for Fontfabric
A Clarendon reinterpreted for editorial and branding work
Gonzaga is a contemporary Clarendon slab-serif typeface designed by Kiril Zlatkov and released by Fontfabric in May 2024. The family spans 18 styles from Thin to Black with upright and italic variants, plus two variable fonts. It supports Extended Latin and Cyrillic—including Bulgarian local forms—and ships with an extensive OpenType feature set covering ligatures, alternates, small caps, and figure styles.
Set in Gonzaga
Insights
- The design team separated type direction (Usmanova), type design (Zlatkov, Martinova, Usmanova), and font production (Martinova, Yatanski, Usmanova, Dimitrova) as distinct credited roles.
- Bulgarian Cyrillic local forms are explicitly included, indicating attention to regional script conventions beyond standard Cyrillic coverage.
- The ligature set encompasses standard, contextual, and discretionary variants, giving designers multiple layers of typographic control.
- Specimen and motion presentation were handled by separate designers (Martinova and Valkov respectively).
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