Typeface Design for Edie & Eddy Text
The alto voice in a three-family variable superfamily
Edie & Eddy Text is the middle register of the Edie & Eddy superfamily, designed by Lisa Fischbach in 2022. It occupies a moderate-contrast position between the high-contrast Modern and the sturdy Slab siblings, all three sharing a common Hairline base weight. The family ships in 16 styles—eight weights from Thin to Black plus matching Italics—as a variable font, with more than 850 glyphs per style and Latin coverage extending to Vietnamese.
Set in Edie & Eddy Text
Insights
- All three superfamily members share a Hairline base weight; contrast treatment alone differentiates their typographic voices.
- The Italic styles are slightly narrower than the uprights and include five independent Italic-only stylistic sets enabling a range from rational cursive to script-like expressiveness.
- Cross-family mixing—pairing Text with Modern or Slab Italic—is an explicitly intended use case, built into the superfamily's harmony and differentiation logic.
- OpenType feature set includes circled-figure stylistic sets and a tabular-width set alongside the full range of figure styles and small caps.
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