Industry: Design

Typography for the Ronnia Font Family

Engineered for the editorial page, built to scale from headline to caption

Ronnia is a humanist sans serif designed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione at TypeTogether, released in 2007 and primarily engineered for newspaper and magazine applications. The family spans 28 styles across regular and condensed widths, covering seven weights with italics throughout. Its design priorities—space efficiency, high x-height, and distinctive key letterforms—are aimed at editorial contexts ranging from headlines to captions and small text.

Set in Ronnia

Insights

Regular and condensed widths were developed together to maintain cohesive shapes across both.
Key glyphs (a, c, e, l, s, M, G) were given generous internal space to aid rapid recognition while retaining enough personality to make reading enjoyable.
A large x-height was specified to support captions, tables, and other small-text contexts common in editorial design.
The OpenType feature set—including small caps, oldstyle and tabular figures, fractions, ligatures, and stylistic alternates—was scoped to serve readers and address editorial design workflows.