Typeface Design for Delvard Sans
Art nouveau poster lettering translated into a text and display sans
Delvard Sans is a low-contrast, somewhat wider sans serif designed by Nikola Djurek at Typotheque, released in 2010. It draws from late 19th-century art nouveau poster lettering, incorporating elevated crossbars, angled segments, and sinuous curves. The family is intended for both running text at small sizes and display use through extensive alternate capitals and contextual swash features.
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- Contextual alternates automatically replace standard capitals with swash terminals or elongated strokes, and can fuse or nestle adjacent characters for unique word shaping.
- Each weight ships with nine numeral styles—including circled and circled-inverted forms—with the default variant selectable at license time.
- Igino Marini contributed to the Latin encoding; font engineering is credited to Roberto Arista.
- The family received the International Association of Art Critics Award in 2011.
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