Typeface Design for Typotheque
Sans serif form, calligraphic soul
Valter is a 16-style sans serif display family designed by Nikola Djurek at Typotheque, released in 2014. Inspired by pointed-pen writing, it is built on a monolinear skeleton across seven weights in which contrast between horizontal and vertical strokes increases incrementally. Narrower cursive italics, small caps, and nine numeral variants per weight round out the family.
Set in Valter
Insights
- Weight is added only to letter interiors, so thinner styles appear wider while heavier weights feel normally proportioned.
- Each weight ships with nine numeral styles—proportional old-style, lining, small caps figures, tabular lining, tabular old-style, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—with the default variant selectable at licence time.
- Igino Marini contributed to the Latin encoding.
- The family received a TDC Typographic Excellence award in 2015.
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