Typeface Design for an Unreleased Italian Corporate Identity
Five years of iterative development across numerous projects
LL Riforma is a sans-serif type family designed by NORM and released by Lineto in 2018, with font engineering and mastering by Alphabet, Berlin. It spans five weights—light through heavy—each with italic cuts, developed over five years of methodical application across numerous projects. The family offers an extensive OpenType feature set including number sets, case-sensitive forms, ligatures, stylistic alternates, symbols, and arrows, and was manually hinted for consistent rendering across platforms and screens.
Set in LL Riforma
Insights
- NORM developed Riforma over five years of methodical application and continuous refinement through trial and error across numerous projects.
- All weights were manually hinted rather than relying on autohinting, targeting consistent representation across platforms and screens.
- Stylistic Set 1 introduces angular cuts to letter terminals, offering a distinct visual variant within the same family.
- A Cyrillic extension was noted as in development at the time of the family's release.
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