Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Long-Form Text

Nine numeral styles built into every weight

Amalia is a pointed-pen text typeface designed by Nikola Djurek and released by Typotheque in 2006. It carries moderate contrast in the tradition of Bodoni and Didot, with wedge serifs and proportions calibrated for small-size legibility. The italic is described as rhythmic and exuberant, rooted in Dutch classical typography without directly reviving any single historical model.

Set in Amalia

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Counter-shapes were deliberately related to letter exteriors to support rhythmic stem intervals, per the foundry's stated design approach.
Proportional old-style figures are the default, but each weight ships with eight additional numeral variants—lining, tabular (both styles), small caps, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—selectable via OpenType features.
Igino Marini contributed to the Latin, with font engineering credited to Liang Hai and Roberto Arista.
The family was named a Typographica Favorite Typeface of 2006 in its release year.