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Seven years from first sketch to release

Ebony is a sans-serif type family by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, with initial sketches from 2008 and release in 2015. The family spans 18 styles across 8 weights, including variable fonts, and targets both editorial and branding use. It balances humanist openness with grotesque regularity. The character set includes the tonal Vietnamese alphabet and German eszett, with version 2.500 marked as a significant update.

Set in Ebony

Insights

Counters and open terminals deliberately widen and gain weight as the typeface gets heavier, making boldness a systematic design variable rather than a simple stroke-width change.
A top serif on the lowercase 'l' and a wide overall stance serve as explicit legibility devices, distinguishing Ebony from purely display grotesques.
The italic mixes predominantly slanted forms with cursive-style letters ('a', 'e', 'f', 'l') to create textural contrast at matching weight and width to the upright.
The character set includes the tonal Vietnamese alphabet and German eszett; version 2.500 is noted as a significant update.