Display Typeface for Expressive Headlines
Stone carving meets calligraphy in a three-layer display serif
Resonay is a layered display serif designed by Andrej Dieneš and released by TypeMates in 2021. It draws from stone-carving details and calligraphic flow, targeting logotypes and headline setting. The family ships in three synchronised layers — Base, Cover, and the combined Solid — across five weights with calligraphic italics, totalling 30 styles and over 2,000 glyphs per style. It received a TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence and a Judges' Choice distinction in 2022.
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Insights
- The three layers (Base, Cover, Solid) are precisely synchronised so designers can overlay or recombine them to control colour, opacity, and gradients independently.
- Uppercase Italic is swashy by default, with additional initial and final swashes for both upper- and lowercase letters beyond a standard ligature set.
- Wide small caps and nested capitals are included specifically to support classical title-setting conventions.
- Twelve named stylistic sets cover alternate letterforms ranging from monocular a/g/y to a medieval E and stemless k/K.
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