Typeface Design for Edie & Eddy Modern
Didone voice inside a variable superfamily built for cross-family mixing
Edie & Eddy Modern is a Didone-style variable serif designed by Lisa Fischbach, released by TypeMates in 2022. One of three contrast-differentiated subfamilies within the Edie & Eddy superfamily, it shares a Hairline base weight with the Slab and Text members. The family spans 8 weights from Thin to Black with matching italics, totalling 16 styles and over 850 glyphs per font. Vietnamese and more than 200 Latin-script languages are supported.
Set in Edie & Eddy Modern
Insights
- All three superfamily members share a Hairline base weight; contrast treatment alone differentiates their typographic voices.
- The italic is designed slightly narrower than the upright to introduce a shift in typographic colour when mixing styles.
- Five italic-only stylistic sets (SS03–SS07) allow granular control, from sans-serif ascenders and alternate a/g to a script-like s.
- OpenType features include circled figures in black and white variants, a Tabular Width Set, and a Smart Typography set, alongside the full range of figure and cap features.
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