Typography for Display Headlines
A titling cut built for the pressures of newspaper production
Greta Grande is the titling optical size within Typotheque's Greta Serif system, engineered specifically for headlines above 30pt in newspaper and periodical contexts. Peter Bilak designed the Latin, Greek, and Armenian scripts, with separate specialists handling Cyrillic, Georgian, Hebrew, and Thai. The cuts feature extreme stroke contrast, tight spacing, and refined detailing appropriate only at large sizes. Together with the Text and Display optical sizes, Grande completes a unified typographic palette for print publication workflows.
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- Optical sizing is split into three ranges: Text (8–11pt), Display (14–21pt), and Grande (above 30pt), each tuned for different printing conditions.
- Typotheque conducted a systematic audit of newspaper and magazine symbol requirements, resulting in specialized glyph sets covering weather, chess, zodiac, map markers, and financial currency symbols.
- Each weight ships with nine numeral variants—including circled, circled-inverted, superior, inferior, small-caps, and both lining and old-style tabular forms—switchable via OpenType features or set as the default at license time.
- The family received TDC Typographic Excellence awards in 2007, 2012, and 2018, and a Granshan award in 2017.
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